347473 - we need a "New Tab" button on the tab bar [tabbar, tab-bar] in the default UI

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186865

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Declan Naughton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060804 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060804 Minefield/3.0a1

Since we're supposed to be serious about tabs, I think a "New Tab" button should be in the /default/ UI. I think it makes sense to have it on the tab bar, rather than the navigation toolbar.

The "New Tab Button on Tab Bar" extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1456/) does a good job of this I think. Opera has the actual text "New Tab" on the button, but I don't think that's necessary and mostly wastes precious space.

New users won't know the key-combinations (CTRL + T) and other shortcuts (e.g. double clicking a blank area of the tab bar) every power user uses, to open a new tab they gotta go through the File menu or, if they know how and are bothered enough, add the New Tab button to the navigation toolbar.

I also think the tab bar should always be displayed by defualt, but there's no point in that unless/until this bug is fixed.

(I think it's kinda likely that this bug is a dupe, but I searched for a good while and found nothing)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I think it's kinda likely that this bug is a dupe

Indeed. Be sure you are including closed, duplicate bugs in your searches, so you pick up their words too.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186865 ***