266510 - a better 'close tab' button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Janssen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

I think the "close tab" button can get some improvements, by making it look more
like the "new tab" button which can be placed on the navigation bar. Now it can
be confused with Windows's exit application button by some new users, especially
because it's colour is dominant (red).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mark Barnes]

Why not put a small CLOSE button right on the individual tabs,
like eMule does it?  That way users won't be closing the wrong
tab accidentally.

Comment 2

[Mark Janssen]

It makes it a lot harder to quickly close serveral tabs, though.

Comment 3

[Peter]

Why not have both, a seperate general close tab button and individual close tab
buttons? It could be an option to disable one or the other.
I also like the way emule does it and I installed the TabX extension to get it
with mozilla.
The only thing I do not like with TabX is the size of the X. It should not waste
so much space. Again the emule solution shows the way how it should be done.
Another possible solution would be using double clicks on tabs to close them.
This is the same way how you close a window by d-clicking on the window menu
icon. This way there is no additional space required and you do not need to hit
a small target.
If you think it could be confusing to novice users why then not make it an option?

Comment 4

[Tal Cohen]

Not just EMule, Eclipse also uses an individual X on each tab. Much more intuitive.

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

"Tab X Adds a Close button to each tab"

Here is the link on "Mozdev": http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/clav/


I think this really basic function should be built into the browser core code
for 2.0 Firefox. This is a more basic, more simple, and more requested feature
than the drag and drop of tabs which was already put in before current 1.1
nightly builds.

Comment 6

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

In additon to Opera 6.x/7.x/8.x, "Tabbrowser extentions" and some other
excellent extentions, Netscape 8.0.x can have "X" button on each tab.
But still no "X" button on each tab when firefox...

Comment 7

[Worcester12345]

Let alone the fact that the coding is mostly already done in the TabX extension
and less than a few k in size. Just make it optional to turn on or off the code
for the "X". Just put it in the same tab options as all the other "Tabs"
functions. I'd like to see undo and duplicate added as well.

Comment 8

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Please do not morph bugs to suit your own views, placing a close tab button on
each tab is bug 108938 and not this one.

Comment 9

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #8)
> placing a close tab button on each tab is bug 108938 and not this one.
Sorry for misundestanding of this bug.
Comment #0 is apparently for improvement of current "Close Tab button" as you say.

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Not a blocker, but theme tweaks and improvements can and will continue to be made.

Comment 11

[Worcester12345]

This bug should either block or be blocked by Bugzilla Bug 308396 depending on your point of view.

Comment 12

[Worcester12345]

block bug 108938?, bug 265493, and Bug 318168 Improve tabbed browsing

Comment 13

[Worcester12345]

Can this one block Bugzilla Bug 345741 Improve "All Tabs" menu active/visible tab feedback?

Comment 14

[AndrewM]

Given that there are now close buttons on each tab now in Firefox, is this bug still relevant?

Comment 15

[Piotr]

In my opinion this bug is fixed and should be closed. In Fx3b4 it is much better.  

Comment 16

[Worcester12345]

I'd like to have the option to have the X on the far right like in "Seamonkey". The X on the right is much nicer when closing many tabs at once so you don't have to go hunting for the X. Just put in the code to choose either way or even both ways. Just put in checkboxes to [allow close button on each tab] and [show close button on right]

Comment 17

[fyc]

(In reply to comment #16)
> I'd like to have the option to have the X on the far right like in "Seamonkey".
> The X on the right is much nicer when closing many tabs at once so you don't
> have to go hunting for the X. Just put in the code to choose either way or even
> both ways. Just put in checkboxes to [allow close button on each tab] and [show
> close button on right]
> 

You can do that if you head into about:config, find "browser.tabs.closeButtons" and change the value from 1 (default) to 3. As far as I can tell, the values are 0 for close button only on active tab, 1 is close button on every tab, 2 is no close buttons and 3 is close button on far right of tab bar.

Comment 18

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > I'd like to have the option to have the X on the far right like in "Seamonkey".
> > The X on the right is much nicer when closing many tabs at once so you don't
> > have to go hunting for the X. Just put in the code to choose either way or even
> > both ways. Just put in checkboxes to [allow close button on each tab] and [show
> > close button on right]
> > 
> 
> You can do that if you head into about:config, find "browser.tabs.closeButtons"
> and change the value from 1 (default) to 3. As far as I can tell, the values
> are 0 for close button only on active tab, 1 is close button on every tab, 2 is
> no close buttons and 3 is close button on far right of tab bar.
> 
This does indeed work. Thank you. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere other than here. What I'd really prefer is the X on both the tab and the right, but I don't think that is possible. Maybe an extension could do this some day.

Comment 19

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

We've since changed these icons - we'll likely change them again for Australis.