347209 - middle click on empty tab strip should produce the same effect as undo close tab from context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Eldo Varghese]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060705 BonEcho/2.0a3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060705 BonEcho/2.0a3

Undo close tab is accessible only from couple of places (context menu of tab strip, and if 345568, or a variation thereof, passes in a menu), and this will make the command much more accessible. Since middle clicking on a tab causes it to close, same behavior on an empty portion of the tab strip should undo that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a new tab
2.middle click on the empty tab strip


Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
open the last closed tab

Comment 1

[Daniel Schroeter]

I would be very happy to see this in FF2 native.
The undoclosetab Extension do this job for FF <2. You can undo the close tab with the middle mouse.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/58/

Comment 2

[sbannersspidey]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I would be very happy to see this in FF2 native.
> The undoclosetab Extension do this job for FF <2. You can undo the close tab
> with the middle mouse.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/58/

Indeed - for those of us who used the extension, we've actually *lost* functionality with FF2 as a result of this (the extension isn't being updated because of the native version - and a versionnumber bump doesn't work, before anyone asks...)

Comment 3

[Arpad Borsos [:Swatinem]]

If I knew what function to call to restore a tab, making a new extension should be very easy. I haven't found anything usefull in MDC about that.

Comment 4

[eyal gruss]

can this make it to 3.1?

Comment 5

[Dirkjan Ochtman (:djc)]

No, it's already way too late for that.

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I don't think that's predictable behaviour at all, actually. Middle click needs to mean something consistent (open in new tab) and we shouldn't overload it this way.