266507 - Great usability problem: "new tab" button should appear in the default toolbar or somewhere else

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 186865

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Carlo 'Carcarlo' Carmagnini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

We're promoting Firefox as the browser with "tabbed browsing". Every article we
wrote, every user we try to convince we tell him: "hey, Firefox has got tabbed
browsing". So he install it, and what he will say? 
- Where is that "tabbed browsing" they talk so often about?
If it's a fabolous feature, why we hide it? See just what Opera had done. I
think a small "new tab" button it's useful to new and old users. Geek could
remove it, but please keep in mind we're approaching average users. We've a "go"
button beside the location bar (I think also IE users knows the keyboard Return
function), and we don't have an icon for that wonderfull new feature for whom
Firefox is famous for. 

I think we should provide a "new tab" button with the next version of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Mark Janssen]

An solution is to make the tab bar behave like e.g. the bookmarks toolbar so
buttons can be placed on it. Then also put a "new tab" button on it by default.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186865 ***

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

You can add the "new tab" button to the default toolbar, just
View->Toolbars->Customize