277028 - remove "undo close tab" from tab context menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Chris Cunningham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 (ax)

Undo Close Tab is unintuitive and dangerous. It doesn't belong in the context
menu for a tab, or anywhere else for that matter. The time saved by the menu
option is in my experience not worth the frustration caused by hitting it
accidentally all the time. The lack of an easy way to undo this compounds the
problem, but that's a separate bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Decide that a particular unfocussed tab in unimportant.
2. Rather than clicking it and then hitting the X button on the tab bar, use the
handy "close tab" context menu item.
3. Miss by three pixels and hit "close other tabs" by mistake.

Actual Results:  
All of my other tabs (i.e. the ones I was actually interested in) close.

Expected Results:  
Not closed all the wrong tabs. (in an ideal world I might have accidentally hit
<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254021">Close Other
Tab</a> but that's currently still broken.)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, it's not even implemented yet : see bug 254021. Are you sure you
haven't loaded the extension "undoclosetab" or the "tab-extensions" ?

The second half of your report seems to indicate the you want to remove the
"close other tabs" entry.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

I think the reporter means "close other tabs".

Go to /options/advanced/ and check the "warn when closing multiple tabs", now an
dialog will appear each time you accidently click on it.

If  you mean that there is no "undo close tab", then that is bug 254021 as
mentioned, there is for now an extension doing this:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/undoclosetab