257823 - Pressing mouse3 and scrolling doesn't scroll tabs

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Marcus Gralde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8

Scrolling the middlebutton while pressing the middle mousebutton should scroll
thru tabs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
-
Actual Results:  
-

Expected Results:  
Switch thru tabs like ctrl+tab would

This would be a sweet feature

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Confirming RFE, don't know about the feasability of this though.

Comment 2

[Marcus Gralde]

Well, even if it's not feasable, there are other ways to implement something
similar. For example, using the scrollwheel over the toolbars (back, reload,
tabs etc) doesn't scroll the page... Why not use that for scrolling in the tabs?

Comment 3

[John Mellor (Jomel)]

I suggest WONTFIX as middle-clicking a tab is already (often) bound to closing
the tab. If you just meant mousewheel scrolling over a tab then this is a
duplicate of bug 281192

Comment 4

[Marcus Gralde]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I suggest WONTFIX as middle-clicking a tab is already (often) bound to closing
> the tab. If you just meant mousewheel scrolling over a tab then this is a
> duplicate of bug 281192

I agree. Although middlebutton is now used to close a tab, that hasn't always
been the case.