1651895 - Regression in closing tabs to the right

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1650635

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[David]

Attachment: edge_right_click.png

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

Steps to reproduce:

Close tabs to the right is now inside a right click menu which is extremely annoying and way too many clicks.

See here for decision change: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887515

Chrome and Edge actually have better right click menus that actually prioritize closing tabs. The rest of the options in the menu are considered useless to me.

Actual results:

1.) Right click tab
2.) Left click Close Multiple Tabs
3.) Left click Close Tabs to the Right

Expected results:

1.) Right click tab
2.) Left click Close Tabs to the Right

Comment 1

[David]

Attachment: chrome_right_click.png

Comment 2

[David]

Attachment: firefox_right_click.png

Comment 3

[David]

There is also an add-on that reverses this behavior here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/close-other-tabs-item/

For something to pop up this quickly leads me to believe Mozilla made a bad design choice here.

Comment 4

[David]

Attachment: firefox_right_click_77.png

Version 77 right click menu

Comment 5

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

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

Comment 6

[David]

I've downgraded back to version 77.0.1. This wasn't a straight forward process and almost made me uninstall completely. If anyone else is looking to downgrade:

1.) about:profiles -> Open remote folder for profile -> compatibility.ini -> remove version from LastVersion= and save
2.) about:preferences -> Firefox Updates (Towards the bottom) -> Check for updates but let you choose to install them

Comment 7

[David]

Noting bug #1650635