686983 - Making a tab is too hard

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Erik Rose [:erik][:erikrose]]

With the "show the tabs" button having moved to the toolbar (rather than the old if less discoverable swipe-right gesture which I quite liked), it is somewhat difficult to create a new tab. Hitting the "show the tabs" button isn't too hard, but then I have to move my hand all the way to the bottom of the tab gutter to find the relatively small "+" button, which is right next to a bunch of destructive buttons (Android's Back and Home).

Some ideas:
* Move the "+" button to the top of the tab gutter.
* Alternately, make the big, black, easy-to-hit empty space in the gutter create a new tab.
* Or, more discoverably, put a placeholder "new tab" button--the same size and shape as a normal tab--below the real tabs. Most of the time--when there are only a few tabs--it would be pretty close to the "show the tabs" button.

Comment 1

[Erik Rose [:erik][:erikrose]]

(The third suggestion above doesn't work at all when you have so many tabs that you have to scroll.)

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This ui will change in bug 685839.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This should be better now. I'm marking fixed. Feel free to open or file something new if you still have problems.