105748 - Close button for tabs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Stephane Chauveau]

Galeon has a small close icon in each tab. I would like to see
that in mozilla.
If I remember well, Galeon propose multiple modes in its 
preferences:

(1) no close icon at all
(2) only the close icon in the tab with focus is enabled. 
(3) all close icons are enabled at any times.

Mode 2 is probably not so interesting because the tabs
you want to close are often the ones you are not currently 
reading. So mode 3 was my initial choice but I decided
to use mode 2 after I killed by accident a few tabs 
while trying to change the focus. From my point of view,
mode 3 with a double click to close the tab would be 
perfect.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 105789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Josh Steiner]

a 4th option is the way lotus notes does it, which it that when you mouse over a
tab button, a close button appears.  I find this pretty nice, but I'm not sure
if it is consistant with the rest of the mozilla UI.

Comment 3

[WD]

I would like to see something like this, as I think right-clicking and then
clicking again to close a tab is a bit inconvenient.

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 107111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

I think a single close button on the upper-right is the right thing to user-test
first, since users are accustomed to it being there, and it doesn't take up
space in each tab.

Comment 6

[timeless]

trudelle: you know that we used to have one and hyatt removed it, right? fwiw
the lotus suggestion sounds neat, but i suspect that i couldn't sell it to
modern or classic theme owners.

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

yes, I know.  We need it back, or some similar one-click close affordance.

Comment 8

[Josh Steiner]

in the meantime, you can middle click on an open tab to close it.

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

No, I can't, nor can most other people.

Comment 10

[Jimmy Sieben]

I also vote for the return of the little X to close the current tab.

Many people don't have middle buttons, and they don't think to use them anyways.

We used to have the x. Why don't we anymore?

I like all the changes to the tabbed interface lately, just bring back the x!

Comment 11

[David Hyatt]

Done.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed using 2001.11.28.0x-comm bits on linux rh7.2, mac 10.1.1 and winnt.

Comment 13

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 167952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 168424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***