1925231 - 'New tab' button postion no longer sticky

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1919721

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Nige]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Right-click tab bar and select 'customise'. With customise settings window open, drag 'new tab' icon (+) from default position (left of open tabs) to the right of open tabs. Close customise settings window.

Actual results:

New tab button (+) remains in position to right of open tabs until window is closed; open a new window and the 'new tab' button is now positioned to the left of the open tabs.

Expected results:

New tab button should still be located to right of open tabs (ie user customisation should be sticky).

Comment 1

[Nige]

Wrong version number selected, apologies, this is 132.0b8

Comment 2

[Nige]

Attachment: 1 - open settings window.png

Comment 3

[Nige]

Attachment: 2 - move new tab button.png

Comment 4

[Nige]

Attachment: 3 - close customise window.png

Comment 5

[Nige]

Attachment: 4 - new window button moved back.png

Comment 6

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 7

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

(In reply to Nige from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Right-click tab bar and select 'customise'. With customise settings window open, drag 'new tab' icon (+) from default position (left of open tabs) to the right of open tabs. Close customise settings window.

This isn't actually the default, and the bug you describe doesn't reproduce for me. You appear to be on beta, where we had a serious issue that corrupted internal state of browser customization (bug 1919721). Although we fixed the issue that will not have resolved the corrupted state of affected profiles. It seems likely your profile was affected by this.

If you use "restore defaults" in customize mode, the button should be on the right and then stay on the right.

Could you confirm this is the case?

Comment 8

[Mike]

I have the exact same issue in FireFox Developer Edition for about two versions, currently on v132.0b9.
But I can confirm that "restore defaults" does work.

I had to create a Bugzilla account to find this solution, but was worth it ;-)
Thanks!

Comment 9

[Nige]

Confirmed working, thank you.

Comment 10

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

Thank you for the confirmation!