155844 - opening new tab, closing tab

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Shaomin Ding]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

I wish:

1.when opening link in new tab the current tab could always be active, this is
very usful in using search engine.
2.double click the tab could close it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open in new tab
2.close the tab

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

==> Tabbed browser

Comment 2

[Mike Young]

This already exists. you can get your links to load in tabs while keeping the
current one active by setting the following preference.

Edit > Preferences... > Navigator > Tabbed Browsing > Load Links in the Background

(I could never use the other way.)

About the double-click to close, I am pretty sure that the UI people would not
like that idea at all. We already have a right-click menu on the tabs that you
can use to close one that is not active. the idea of double clicking being used
to close something or remove something would be very dangerous for novices who
are never really sure when to double-click and when to single-click. it would be
much too easy to lose data in that case. marking WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Wontfix bugs.

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