Add pref to allow disabling "Open a New Tab" in context menu
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: metasieben, Unassigned)
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While the context-menu change in bug 1692840 is probably a nice addition for users that also (have to) use Chrome, it disrupted the musclememory of every Firefox user, used to having "Reload Tab" being the first option there.
Moreover with the advent of native context-menus on MacOS it is no longer possible to mitigate this change with a user stylesheet.
Therefore could we add a pref to deactiavet the entry + separator?
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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(In reply to matthias koplenig [:metasieben] from comment #0)
While the context-menu change in bug 1692840 is probably a nice addition for users that also (have to) use Chrome, it disrupted the musclememory of every Firefox user, used to having "Reload Tab" being the first option there.
You are minimizing the set of users who would appreciate this item (note, for instance, that it also opens a tab immediately to the right of the tab you click, which is a feature request that we've had from Firefox users a number of times over the years), the number of other browsers that do this (hi Edge!) and the importance of feature parity, which is also important to make it easier to switch from Chrome or Edge to Firefox, which is something that needs to be easier if Firefox wants to retain market share. Unfortunately, we cannot achieve that without occasionally inconveniencing existing users, as any UI change does.
Moreover with the advent of native context-menus on MacOS it is no longer possible to mitigate this change with a user stylesheet.
If you really want this quite this much it would be pretty straightforward to write an add-on that uses an experimental API to remove the item.
Therefore could we add a pref to deactiavet the entry + separator?
It doesn't scale to add individual prefs every time someone doesn't like a menu item. Even just dealing with separators in the menus we have that change shape based on what you click (the main page context menu) is a nightmare. Add in prefs for all of them and it becomes even worse. I'm sorry you don't like this one, but we're not going to add a pref for it just because it breaks muscle memory for people who reload tabs a lot.
There are already existing bugs on file to make the entirety of the menu system customizable the way the toolbars are, which is the only way I could see this happening - but that's a massive effort and 89 which is branching on Monday.
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