799274 - Closing tabs by accident because the close icon is not visible

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[amartya]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2012-10-08 at 5.41.13 PM.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120905151427

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked on a tab among the 10 tabs I had open on my Macbook Pro 13" running Firefox 15.0.1.


Actual results:

It closed the tab instead of selecting it. The reason is quite simple. I clicked on the right hand side of the tab and it was where the "close" icon (or X symbol) usually is. Only, this time it wasn't visible because I had more than 8 tabs open. But apparently the button was still active though invisible(has a onClick handler?).

This is more a usability bug, but Chrome seems to handle this more gracefully. So once you have enough tabs open such that the X icon takes up more space than you can spare, one needs to first select a tab, and only then the X become visible for you to click and close that tab.


Expected results:

The tab should have been selected rather than closing it.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Can you reproduce it?  Maybe you’ve double-clicked the tab?

Comment 2

[Ioana (away)]

WFM on the 10/15 Nightly.

[e-mail], can you reproduce this issue with a clean profile?
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 3

[amartya]

Works for me now (started with a clean profile). Thanks and apologies for the delayed response.