300547 - Easy to close wrong tab if you miss the intended tab by a pixel when right-clicking

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199396

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Christian Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

Right clicking the tab bar background brings up the context menu for current
tab. Unfortunately this is misleading if you meant to right-click a different
tab but missed by one pixel and hit the background. I closed the current tab
when I meant to close an unselected tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open more than one tab.
2. Right-click a pixel immediately above a tab (the space between the top of the
tab and the bottom of the toolbars) which is not the current tab to get context
menu.
3. Choose close tab.

Actual Results:  
Current tab closed.

Expected Results:  
Step 2 should have failed (done nothing): right-clicking space which is not a
tab should not bring up a tab's context menu.

Alternatively, some might argue the intent of the user was clear: they meant to
right-click the tab below where they clicked, they just missed by a pixel or
two. But in no case did they mean to bring up the context menu for a tab perhaps
on the other end of the tab bar.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199396 ***