255708 - Unexpected New Tab when double clicking the tab background

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ryan Faerman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Two or more tabs are active. when you double click any of the gray background of
the tab area, a new tab is created. As more tabs are created, even though the
area of the gray background gets smaller the problem still exists.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create two or more tabs
2.double click the gray background area near the tabs that _is not_ a tab

Actual Results:  
a new tab opens

Expected Results:  
Nothing

This is in the Default theme. I am running Windows XP Pro SP1A with firefox as
the default browser

Comment 1

[Tim Rørstrøm]

Confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040812 Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 2

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

A New Tab is supposed to open up when you double click the tab bar, that's an
intended feature.  It's listed in the Mouse Commands in Help -> Help Contents.