293526 - opening new tab in window does not allow closing that tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)

When looking at a popup window with no location bar or menu, and you
(accidentally) press Ctrl-T, a new "tab" opens but because the tab bar is also
not available you're unable to close this. This is specifically annoying when
the popup window actually has some interesting content, like the SquirrelMail
Compose window where I just had typed a mail before accidentally opening a tab
over it. After that my composed message was unreachable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open new popup window without location bar or menu (e.g.
Compose-in-new-window in SquirrelMail)
2. Press Ctrl-T.


Actual Results:  
The new tab fills the entire window and you can't get rid of it.

Expected Results:  
Either disable the ctrl-T shortcut in windows that don't really support tabs
(i.e. a no-op), or a way to close the tab again (i.e. a tab bar).

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

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