'Reopen Closed Tab' Replaced 'Close Tab' As Bottom Menu Selection; This Conflicts With User Muscle Memory
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0
Steps to reproduce:
Right-clicking on a tab results in this menu:
Reload Tab
Mutle Tab
Pin Tab
Duplicate Tab
Bookmark Tab
Move Tab >
Select All Tabs
Close Tab
Close Multiple Tabs >
Reopen Closed Tabs
Press the up arrow and then the Enter key.
Actual results:
The selection jumps from the "Reload Tab" option down to "Reopen Closed Tabs".
Expected results:
Prior to Firefox 88, the "Close Tab" option was at the bottom of the list. Thus, a user could quickly right-click, up arrow & Enter to close a tab. After almost 2 decades of doing this, the change in the menu's ordering now conflicts with user's muscle-memory.
Putting "Close Tab" back at the bottom would bring Firefox back in line with other applications that have tabs, as they all seem to have "Close Tab" at the bottom of their menus.
The Tab's right-click menu is similar to the menu one sees when right-clicking on an application's title bar:
Maximize
Minimize
...
Close
Again, the convention is to have the close option at the very bottom.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Hi,
This could be set as an enhancement, hopefully it will be taken into consideration in the future.
I'll mark this Enhancement as New for visibility.
Regards,
Jerónimo.
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