1650635 - Too deep menu level entry to 'Close other tabs' and 'Close all right/left of this tab'

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[u304866]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Closing other tabs is something I do on a regular basis and hate to see that this function is hidden in the latest version 78.0.1 in a submenu called "Close several tabs" (or similar. I have a different language set)

Actual results:

I cannot right click on a tab > Close other tabs anymore but there is an annoying additional menu level click on tab > Close several tabs > Close other tabs.

Expected results:

"Close other tabs" should again be a top-level option in the right-click / context-menu of the tabs.

Also there is an option close tabs right of this one. There should be an option to close tabs left of this one as well.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 10

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Jared, can you please triage this?

Comment 11

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Jared is on PTO...

Comment 12

[:Gijs (he/him)]

My understanding is that Jared and UX considered this extensively (see bug 887515 comment 50 and 52), and decided to stick with the current decision. There's a support article about this and the motivations (cf. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changes-tab-context-menu-firefox-78 ), and there are add-ons available that put these items back into the main context menu for users that want that.

As a result, I think this bug should be wontfixed, given there's been an explicit UX decision not to change this.