191421 - "Close other tabs" menu element is in a poorly chosen position

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 184024

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Justin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

In the menu that comes up when you right-click a tab, the "close other tabs"
menu item is in a dangerous position. It is way too easy to aim for "close tab"
and hit "close other tabs" instead. The user then loses a screenful of tabs with
no way to recover them. This is especially harmful to anyone using a laptop with
a touchpad or eraser-style pointer which aren't always easy to control. 

It would be simple matter to solve this problem. A few solutions are:

1. Remove "close other tabs" entirely. How often does the user want to kill a
whole bunch of tabs at once? 

2. Suppress the "close other tabs" item unless a keystroke is pressed, in which
case make "close tab" become close other tabs. 

3. Add seperators to push "close other tabs" away from the other menu items. 

This is bad GUI design. It should not be so easy for the user to make such a
fatal error. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Please do not file duplicates on purpose.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184024 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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This bug will never fixed if you don't stop adding stupid spam comments.
You are free to pull the source, change or fix it, compile it and use your own
fixed build.
If you don't want to do that do simple this : shut up !