273065 - Make the Leftclick to open new tabs instead of middle click, and right click to close opened tabs instead of middleclick.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[macster_smart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

If I wana make a scroll on one webpage the middleclick occurs when over an link,
when you just wana make a scroll and a new tab opens without my consens.
If middle click will have no funtion then even if you just wana make a scroll
and missclick on middleclick button you will not have to close tabs that open
rapidly, and it is  more easy to rightclick on an opened tab to close it instead
of middleclick.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
There should be a dialog configuration window under the Options menu something
like Mouse and Keyboard shortcuts.
Under the Mouse configuration dialog should be the next options:
Options to chose from: 1. Open links in new windows       2. Open links in new
tabs   3. Tab dialog menu    4. Close tabs   5. Disabled
Left click button       option 2 (default)           
Middle click button     option 5 (default)
Right click button      option 4 (default)  

Scroll speed      Lines scrolled at one time slider to chose from 1 to 20

Scroll over many opened tabs on one Firefox window, more than 30 tabs ex: 30-50
tabs interval, when we make a downscroll over the tab bar the 30-60 interval
tabs should be displayed, and when we make an upscroll the 1-30 tabs interval
should be displayed so we can chose easily wat thab we want to view.

Actual Results:  
It will enhance browsing speed.

Expected Results:  
To add that options to the Option menu

Comment 1

[macster_smart]

This is more an enhancement than a bugfix.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Left and right clicks have clearly defined and expected behaviours in web
browsers.  We're not going to changes those as default values.  Adding
complicated prefs like this doesn't make sense, since the default behaviors are
very very universal.  Middle click to open links/close tabs is optimal since it
doesn't break long-held conventions in document browsers.

There are extensions that let you do things like this, but we're not planning on
doing anything along these lines in the core browser.