Closed Bug 342626 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Close button on first tab is disabled with just one tab open

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Tabbed Browsing
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: lensovetp, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060614 Camino/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060614 Camino/1.0+ If the tab bar is always visible and only one tab is open, the close button is disabled. It would be much more convinient if the button stayed enabled and did what it would normally do - close the tab. Firefox has interesting behavior in relation to this - it closes the tab, but immediately opens a new one with a blank page. I'd say that's not really what we want here. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure tab bar is always visible 2. Have just one tab open Actual Results: Close button is disabled. Expected Results: Close button is enabled and functions as it would in any other case.
This is by design; see bug 291758.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
(In reply to comment #1) > This is by design; see bug 291758. > well during discussion of that bug it was mentioned that my behavior is one option, and the current behavior is the other option. my question is, why was the latter chosen as the "expected" behavior?
Because the behavior we chose is consistent with the OS and keeps the tab close button consistent with itself (i.e., it always closes a tab, not a window): "b) I think it would be just weird and "inconsistant" if trying to close a tab would close a window"
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
well...just because in this case, closing the tab also closes a window, well duh...if it's the only tab, closing the tab closes the window too. dunno, to me it seems "consistent" that the button always works and always closes a tab. now, since one tab = whole window, then the last tab would close the window too. seems pretty consistent to me. ahh resistance is futile...
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