280763 - Allow disabling "Close tab" for tabs of user choice

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Lars Berntzon]

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

Often when i surf the web I work from one master page (can be a search result or
a links summary page) and examine links from that master page into new tabs.
When I finished reading one sub page I quit the newly opened tab to get back to
the master page. After I while though it happens that I close the master page
tab as well by mistake.

It would be nice if the quit icon for a tab (my master page) could be temorarily
disabled. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[DStile]

I think more details are needed here.

Do you mean the close tab button on the top right?  And when should it be
disabled?  When you are down to one tab left or always?  And do you mean that
just the first tab should have the close tab button disabled?  If so, what
happens if you want to close it?

Comment 2

[Lars Berntzon]

I mean the small orange cross close button to the right of all tab tabs.
I am thinking there should be a menu choice on the tab popup menu for disabling
its close (locking it). Then the button and the "close tab" menu choice should
be disabled, if trying to close any way, a message saying "tab is locked" or
perhaps just an extra question "tab is locked, really close it?"

I do not mean just the first tab but any tab that I chose to use as a "master" tab.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Changing summary to make sense.
I think it's wontfix and you should ask for extension instead. Probably there is
one that does it already.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 164213?

Comment 5

[Lars Berntzon]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Duplicate of Core bug 164213?

Yep, its a duplicate

Comment 6

[timeless]

actually it isn't. because core:tabbed browser doesn't belong in core (it
belongs in suite), and suite tabbed browser and firefox tabbed browser are distinct.

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Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

extensionstuff
WONTFIX