273090 - Close current tab 'x' button 'bounces' if too slow on the mouse button

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Michael DeLoatch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

For old codgers like me with limited hand-eye coordination, sometimes we tarry a
bit too long on the mouse button when clicking teensy-eensy screen widgets like
the 'x' button in the upper right portion of the screen that closes the current tab.
Result: I watch in horror as 2,3, or 4 tabs go poof one after another, even
though I've only clicked once.
Maybe this is an intended feature, but I find it unsettlnig

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up 5 or 6 tabs
2. Move mouse pointer over little [x] button at right end of tabs bar
3. Depress left mouse button and hold it down a bit too long
4. Watch in horror

Actual Results:  
I watched in horror as more tabs close than I intended.

Expected Results:  
No tickee, no shirtee.
One clickee, one closee.

Nothing additional to report at this time.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That doesn't seem to be either a bug or a feature of Firefox, but of your mouse:
is it even older and codgier than you? If I hold down the button, I don't get
any action at all until the MouseUp when I release the button. Does your mouse
button not quite stay clicked when it's held, so it's firing multiple times? Or,
does your mouse driver have a setting (probably hidden away somewhere in Control
Panel - Mouse) to treat click-and-hold as keep-clicking-madly?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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