292250 - It is possible to open a new tab without showing all tabs in the same window.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[toohard4ur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

This becomes a problem especially when clicking on a web link that creates a tab
in a new window without any navigation information.  If I cause another tab to
open in the same window, I have no way to get back to the previous tab.  Mouse
right click doesn't proved a "go back" function.  When try to close the browser
window, It tells me that I am about to close the, say, 3 tabs.  This is cool. 
Yet  I have no way to access the other two tabs.  This is not cool.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[toohard4ur]

Context sensitive menu should, at least, have a feature to close the current
tab.  This way, at least, I can pop the stack, sorta speak

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 292249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Chuck]

Sound like a dup of bug 182185 to me.

Comment 4

[Yuh-Ruey Chen]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sound like a dup of bug 182185 to me.

No, they're kinda related but they're not the same issue.  This bug is talking
about being unable to access new tabs in chromeless (if that's the term)
windows.  The other one, at least from what I read from bug 182185 comment 6,
talks about external links opening in chromeless windows.

Comment 5

[Scott Davis]

Try <ctrl>-1, <ctrl>-2, <ctrl>-3 to select tabs, or <ctrl>-<tab> and
<ctrl>-<shift>-<tab> to cycle forwards and backwards through the tabs.

Comment 6

[toohard4ur]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Try <ctrl>-1, <ctrl>-2, <ctrl>-3 to select tabs, or <ctrl>-<tab> and
> <ctrl>-<shift>-<tab> to cycle forwards and backwards through the tabs.

GOOD (undocumented?) work around.  But how would one close one of these tabs?

Comment 7

[Richard Elkins]

Reproducable in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 and the same version on
(1.04) on Fedora Core 3 Linux.

When there is no File-menu-toolbar or a tab-toolbar in a tabbed-window (created
by the server, say), there is no mouse-only way to close it.

To reproduce: 

1. http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=nym

2. Vote and click on the poll: "Which is Chris Woodward's best position?" or
another poll if this is replaced by the time that you read this.

3. Click on "Discuss this poll".  This yields a second tabbed window without a
File menu dropdown capability (no navigational toolbars).

Note that right-clicking in the poll-discussion tabbed-window does not present a
"close tab" option.  The only way to close this window without closing every
tabbbed window in the set is to know the control-character sequence, Ctrl-w,
something most Baseball fans are not likely to know.

Proposed solution: Add a "Close Tab" to the right-click drop-down menu of a
focused window of this type (no tab-function aids).

Everyone loves a free lunch: How about some more tab functionality like "Close
All Tabs", "New Tab", etc. to the same right-click drop-down menu to cover this
situation fully?

Comment 8

[toohard4ur]

work around:  ctrl-w closes current tab.  See comment #5 for how to run through
the tabs.

As far as free lunches, how about a context sensitive menu that allows for the
display of menu/tool bars?

Comment 9

[Seairth Jacobs]

This issue may be solved by Bug 143866.  Test with current build and see if it's
still an issue.

Comment 10

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243893 ***