Closed Bug 256437 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Close Tab and Updates Available are too close to scrollbuttons

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: dunsalen, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040820 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040820 Firefox/0.9.3

The locations of the tab closing and Update gadgets are very poor, being
adjacent to the scroll up and down arrows respectively.  Just slight mislocation
of the cursor, quite common with a touchpad mouse, causes the tab of interest to
close, or the Update dialog to come up, in which case the user has to wait for
it to finish loading, then see the buttons on it are ghosted out (Why?) and to
finally get to the dialog close gadget, all when simply trying to scroll down a
page a little.  It is horribly inconvenient.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a page that is larger than the window
2.Notice how carefully you must position the mouse to scroll instead of closing
the tab or calling the update dialog (which gadget does not even have a visible
icon, poor design)
3.

Actual Results:  
Slight mispositioning will close the tab of interest or call up the update dialog

Expected Results:  
Slight mispositioning of the mouse should not cause large delays in browsing,
like reloading the page or messing with a poorly designed update dialog
Summary: Locations of the tab closing and Update gadgets are very poor → Close Tab and Updates Available are too close to scrollbuttons
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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