224594 - mid button click on tab header should always close the tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199058

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[dzy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031030

with mid button load clipboard url enabled,
mid button click on tab header loads clipboard url instead of closing the tab.
mid button's clipboard url loading should only work when clicked inside a tab,
not on the tab header.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enable mid button load url
2.mid button click on tab
3.

Actual Results:  
the tab loads clipboard url

Expected Results:  
the tab closes

Comment 1

[Charles Fenwick]

>>Tabbed Browser

The current behavior is what is intended:
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/xpfe/global/resources/content/bindings/tabbrowser.xml#585

Bug 107147 has a discussion of the matter.

The bottom line seems to be that the behavior will remain the same unless a
specific proposal is brought forth to change it.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I disagree with this proposal.  Middle-click should load the clipboard contents
as an URL.  IMHO, it should load it in the tab header I click on, or it should
load it in a new tab when I click on the tab bar background.  This is not how
it currently works, but it should not under any circumstances kill a tab -
causing potential dataloss.  Implementing this proposal would mean that we
have "load URL in tab" behaviour just a pixel away from "kill this tab" which
is just bad UI design.   I strongly suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199058 ***