293342 - Tabs in tabbed browser should react on MouseDown, not MouseUp

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295721

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ludvig Strigeus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050507 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050507 Firefox/1.0+

Firefox doesn't conform to the de-facto standard user interface behavior of
Windows programs.

The tabbed browsing tabs only react when you release the mouse button. The
standard windows behavior is that tabs react when you actually PRESS the mouse
button.

Reacting on the mousedown event gives the user the impression that the 
program responds faster. Waiting before switching tabs until the user 
releases the mouse button makes the program feel sluggish.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

All programs that I use that use tabs work like firefox; that is, tabs are
selected after mouseup. This includes:
- NVU
- PSPad
- Miranda Tabbed IM'ng
Additionally, when the new feature of drag&dropping tabs to re-order lands, the
only possible way that this would work is if tabs are only 'selected' on mouseup.

I suspect this will be a RESOLVED INVALID.

Comment 2

[Simon Ruggier]

agreed with the above comment

Comment 3

[Ludvig Strigeus]

All tabs that I use DON'T work like firefox. This includes
* Windows
* Mirc
* TextPad
* The settings dialog of virtually any windows program with tabs

I don't see why it has to react on mouseup for dragging to work. Just start the
dragging operation if the user drags the mouse with the button down. The only
difference is that the window that is dragged will always be selected.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Unfortunately (imho), this bug has been fixed by bug 295721

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 295721 ***