Closed Bug 126074 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

When hovering over a tab a close button should appear

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jesse.houwing, Assigned: jag+mozilla)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020215 BuildID: 2002021503 This is in the line of bug 117077, but I'd like to take it one step further. That bug talks about the need of a a better assiciation of the close button with the current tab. I think this should be as follows... the current tab should have a close button by default (or a arrowdown as in the side bar which shows the tab context menu). A similar button should appear when hovering above a background tab (eg a tab that currently doesn't have the view). Maybe even both (a x and a arrowdown), I'm not sure about that. But this would improve the connection between the active tab and other tabs, and makes it easier to close tabs. Now it needs at least two clicks (rightclick -> close tab AND select tab -> x button), then it needs only one (hover, click button)
*** Bug 126073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This topic has already been treated before, and I think that there's an agreement about not adding buttons on hover. It would be too easy to try to click on a tab to change the active one and find that exactly in that place the X button has appeared and now you don't longer have that tab. On the other hand, bug 108938 is about always having a close button on each tab.
For the reasons given above, wontfix.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
it couldn't even be an option? what's with you guys being so black-and-white about things? i don't mean to offend you, but it seems many good suggestions for Mozilla have been dumped because some people would find them inconvenient or unuseful. Is that not what options are for?
VERIFIED WONTFIX. Prefs are evil, etc, etc.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
keithkml, we have way too many options already anyways.
Well, for the record, I disagree. There are too few options. There are many things I would like to be able to turn on or off, or modify in some other preference-friendly fashion. I don't mean to start an argument, only to state my opinion.
To respond to comment #2, the 'close button on hover' behaviour is implemented in Eclipse IDE, which I've been using extensively for about nine months now, and I've *never*, ever closed a window because the close button appeared just as I hovered over the tab to select it. If the close button always appears in the same place (say right edge of the tab), and you ensure that the tabs don't get ridiculously small, this just is not a problem.
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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