Open Bug 652950 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Request: new tabs should show tab bar in full screen

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

enhancement

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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: uiwanted)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110414 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110414 Firefox/6.0a1

This is a feature request: Ctrl-[click link] should un-hide the tab bar when viewing full screen.

Currently, if a user has un-selected the option "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" then they will not have any indication of the opening of a new tab when they Ctrl-click to open a link in a new tab, while using full screen mode.

Easy fix to my mind is: un-hide the tab bar whenever a new tab is opened, when using full screen.  This also fixes the issue of websites which attempt to open new windows, that instead land in a new tab.

Perhaps there is a better solution, but this is certainly a problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enter full screen mode.
2.  Browse to a page with links.
3.  Hold down the Ctrl button and click a link.
4.  Note that there's no indication of a new tab.

Actual Results:  
There don't appear to be any.  You could Ctrl-click ad infinitum and you'd see no indication of a new tab until you deliberately move the cursor to the tab bar.

Expected Results:  
Perhaps pop open the tab bar?  Or maybe even just dangle a single tab from the top of the screen?
Keywords: ux-userfeedback
Summary: Request: new tabs show tab bar in full screen → Request: new tabs should show tab bar in full screen
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: ux-userfeedback
OS: Windows 7 → All
Whiteboard: uiwanted
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Severity: normal → S3
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