226215 - Close tab by double right click (IN window or ON tab)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336377

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Rob Bush]

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

I would love to see the ability to close a tabbed window by double right
clicking in the tabbed window itself (i.e not necessarily ON the tab at the
top.)  I currently have this feature with my Lotus Notes client, and I love it!
 I find myself trying to double right click my tabbed Mozilla windows all the
time to close them because I am so used to doing this in Lotus Notes.  It makes
for very fast opening and closing of documents as you don't have to move your
mouse all over the place to close out windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Double Right Click
2.Doesn't close window
3.

Actual Results:  
Doesn't close window, just pops up a menu of options.

Expected Results:  
Future Expected Result:  Closes tabbed window.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla is not Mozilla Browser.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

A double-click on the tab itself was already refused in bug 158040 (but it's
available in the tabbrowser extension,
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en ), so I don't give
this much chance. You couldn't double-click on a word to select it anymore.

Comment 4

[Rob Bush]

Thanks for the feedback, however, what I described was a RIGHT double click, not
a LEFT double click.  You would still be able to LEFT double click on a word
(Just like I still can in Lotus Notes) and have it select the entire word. 
Currently, RIGHT double click only pops up a menu of options, of which the
second "click" of the double click actually has no function since a menu item
has to be selected first.

Comment 5

[Johnny]

Well, I too am a Lotus Notes user, and would like to "second" this request.  I
also keep double RIGHT clicking in tabs, and in Mail, to close the window.  It
is perhaps one of the few really great functions of Lotus Notes (a program,
ironically, known for its horrible user interface).  This ability would be a
wonderful user "preference."  

As a non-developer, I tried finding code I could change via Javascript or
something to add this functionality myself.  So far, alas, no luck.

Comment 6

[morphis]

I figured the way to make it work as an extension or part of function of my
current extension (Super Drag and Go). Double-click right button to close
current tab is the easy thing comparing with dealing with double-click
left-button: I tried to capture double-click left-button and close tab IF mouse
clicks on blank area in stead of in-text coz I want to preserve the function
that double-click over a word  selects the word.  The wierd (at least for me)
thing is whenever I click on some blank area which is on the same line of some
text, the last word or last non-letter charactor like ", . ( )" will be
selected. Is this supposed to be like that. I just feel it makes no sense. 

If you guys think it really doesn't make sense of double-click on blank area to
select last word/last charactor. I may file a bug here to ask them to correct it. 
Or, if someone has ideas where the code dealing with "double click to select"
is, I would like to go there and and make a patch. 

BTW: So far, I couldn't find it in those jar files. Hence it's probably in the
Gecko core, i.e. in those dlls complied from .cpp files.

 

Comment 7

[Rob Bush]

Morphis,

Thanks for looking into this again, I really appreciate all the hard work you
guys put into Mozilla/Gecko, it ROCKS!

I'm not sure the confusion over the double-click of the left button.  We don't
want to use the left button, we WANT it to be the right button.  If the right
button is the easy part, than use that one since that is what we want anyway.