173115 - possibility to close first tab when content is empty

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159104

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: 1.2 Alpha

When opening a saved/bookmarked group of tabbed windows, I always have an
initial tab that's empty.

I would suggest to close that first tab if no page has been loaded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Ctrl+N
3. Open tabbed bookmark

Actual Results:  
initial tab was blank

Expected Results:  
no initial tab

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153016 ***

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

Reopening - incorrect resolution.  This is not a duplicate of bug 153016.  It
doesn't want to insert anything anywhere.  It simply wants to do away with the
left-most "dangling" tab that serves no purpose when opening a bookmark group
with only a single tab in place.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

I'm surprised that this is "new" - but I can't find a specific dupe, although I
think it's been referred to indirectly in some of the other bookmark group bugs.

Confirming but changing severity to enhancement since it's really just a tweak
to existing behaviour.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

From the Description of bug 153016:
>One thing this would address is the very annoying "hanging left tab" syndrome I
>now see.  I run Mozilla and immediately open a tab group.  Now I'm left with a
>left-most tab that I don't care about and have to always close in annoyance.

Isn't that exactly what was requested here?

I still think this is a dupe of bug 153016, although bug 153016 is even more
drastic perhaps since it suggests reusing the current tab even when it is not
empty.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

> Isn't that exactly what was requested here?

No.  This bug is not asking for anything to be inserted.  The first tab of the
group is to replace the existing single tab - the remainder are to be appended
to the end.

The effect of bug 135016, in the case of a single tab, is actually the above,
but in implementing it the behaviour of opening a tab group where there is more
than a single existing tab would be radically different than what we have now.

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

Expanding on original comment 0:

This bug should be about replacing a single existing tab with the first tab of a
tab group if said single tab is either blank OR the browser's defined Home page.
 (In other words, you should be able to open Mozilla and immediately open a tab
group - regardless of whether the initial tab is actually blank or the intial
Home page - without having a resultant dangling left-most blank or Home tab.

Also, minor note: The methodology of reproducing this bug as stated in comment 0
lists the redundant middle step of hitting Ctrl-N.  It can be more simply
reproduced by just opening Mozilla and opening a bookmark group - there's no
need to open a 2nd browser window.

This bug blocks bug 159431.

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

> I'm surprised that this is "new" - but I can't find a specific dupe,
> although I think it's been referred to indirectly in some of the other
> bookmark group bugs.

I just found the dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159104 ***