Open Bug 1418003 Opened 6 years ago Updated 4 months ago

"tab wheel scroll" add-on as a optional feature

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P3)

57 Branch
enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: sir.gustav.the.coder, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171112125346

Steps to reproduce:

Scrolling while hovering over the tab bar.


Actual results:

Horizontal scrolling through the tab list


Expected results:

Firefox should switch tabs to right/left like ctrl-tab without the "recently used" option checked.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Depends on: 1285812
Priority: -- → P3
Once the linked problem is fixed, is there any way to get this into Firefox faster?
(In reply to Adrian from comment #2)
> Once the linked problem is fixed, is there any way to get this into Firefox
> faster?

No, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Uplift_rules.
If this becomes a user pref, can we get a value for it like "switch tabs even if they overflow"?

Looking at the patch in the parent bug report, I don't imagine this will take more than a couple extra lines.
Any news on this? It's already half a year with no apparent activity...

There's a script for https://github.com/ardiman/userChrome.js that does it, but since 61b1 it does not apply on all old windows after a browser restart (and running it manually from the browser console is rather annoying).

Waiting for it for years now...

Is it possible that this was solved by the toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling flag?
Anyway it is not working with version 71. Is there a way to fix it?

Flags: needinfo?(sir.gustav.the.coder)

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

For me toolkit.tabbox.switchByScrolling gives the desired tabscrolling behaviour when set to true.

Severity: normal → S3

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