296980 - Mousedown focusing tab is inconsistent with middle-clicking closing tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

On mousedown a different tab gets focused.
I think this is inconsisten with middle-clicking to close a tab, where a tab is
closed after the mouse button is released again.
Also inconsistent with middle-clicking to open a new tab.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

MConnor on IRC:
"Yeah, but then you can't recover from a misplaced click by dragging out before
onmouseout."
So this bug is probably going to become WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Jefferson Ietto Novo]

The big problem is tab focusing on mouse click instead of mouse release
("OnMouseDown" vs "OnMouseUp"). This makes very annoying to drag tabs, as they
focus when they're draged, for example.

Comment 3

[Jefferson Ietto Novo]

This bug still present in Firefox 1.5 Beta 1.

Comment 4

[Hemiola SUN]

(In reply to comment #1)
> MConnor on IRC:
> "Yeah, but then you can't recover from a misplaced click by dragging out before
> onmouseout."
> So this bug is probably going to become WONTFIX.
> 
> 

a solution ?
mouse click (down and release) to focus a tab, as firefox 1.0x does.
mousedown to show a tooltip of the tab's title, instead of focusing the tab.

Comment 5

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

The platform should be changed from WinXP to all Windows OSes.

Comment 6

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

The mousedown to focus tab is desired for UI responsiveness.

For reference, this behavior was changed in bug 295721.

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

We don't intend to change the select-tab-on-mousedown behavior which is well established at this point.