199803 - option to disable Close Other Tabs from tab's popup menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103354

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Kang, Jeong-Hee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314

Close Tab and Close Other Tabs is placed close to each other
but do a perfectly different task.

and Close Other Tabs is really danger: think about it;
you've open up about 50 tabs searching for google for an issue.
you never remember where the tab is from.
and to close a tab, you, accidentally, avtivate 'Close Other Tabs'.

and bomb.
it's really terrific. and I've just undergone twice.
what a danger.

pliz put an option on preference of Tabbed browsing
to disable Close Other Tabs menuitem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[James Graham]

This is basically a variation on bug 103354

Having an option 'do you want to see this menu item?' is considered very bad UI
and so is unlikely to be implemented. 

Comment 2

[Carlos A. Icaza-Estrada]

The "Close all other tabs" option, which appears when I right-click on an
individual tab, is just below the "Close tab" option, which I use much more
often than the "Close all.." So, when I want to close a single tab, I sometimes
end up doing the opposite: I close the rest and am left with the one I really
wanted to close. 

"Close all other tabs" seems to me unncessary. One closes each tab individually,
as one is done with each web page. I really think "Close all..." should be moved
elsewhere, certainly not on the right-click tab menu. 

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103354 ***