203604 - First menu option when right-clicking on browser tab is "close" instead of "new tab" - design problem more than bug

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Jonas Werner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When right-clicking on a tab in the browser:
1.3 versions of Mozilla had "new tab" as the first option
1.4 versions has "close tab" as the first option instead. 

Every time I want to open a new tab I end up closing the one I was working for :-( 
Please reconsider this design! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the browser
2. Press ctrl+t a few times to open a few new tabs
3. Right-click on one of the tabs and check the menu
Do this on both 1.3 and 1.4 versions and you will see the difference. 

Actual Results:  
The right-clicked tab closes

Expected Results:  
Open a new tab 

This is a design problem, not a bug. I hope this is the right place to report this.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

This was by design - see bug 191826

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 206486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

*** Bug 208472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***