348060 - [rfe] add "add new tab", "bookmark all tabs", "reload all", "undo close tab"... to "all tabs menu"

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

[rfe] add "add new tab", "bookmark all tabs", "reload all", ... to "all tabs menu"

dougt asked:  "what about adding 'add new tab'" to the "all tabs" menu popup.

Let me put this out there for beltzner/ben/mconnor/pkasting to reject, modify or accept:

tab 1
tab 2
...
tab n
<sep>
add new tab
bookmark all tabs
reload all
undo close tab

Comment 1

[Peter Kasting]

Suggest WONTFIX based on comments about this on a previous bug from beltzner, and also my belief that bug 347930 would solve this sort of problem.

Comment 2

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

Peter's right, this is WONTFIX. An interesting suggestion, but this isn't the right way to add those controls since it will confuse/distract from the primary purpose of the drop-marker which is to select a tab that exists on the tabstrip. We've rejected calls for primary UI to exist for these functions before (ie: no "new tab" button on the strip) and a user can current right-click on the all-tabs button to get a shortcut menu that allows them to do all of these things.

Peter's also right that bug 347930 is a more interesting way to approach the problem, falling in line with our history of providing a minimal set of default controls and the ability for users to customize thing as they see fit.

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

kpasting and beltzner:  thanks for the response and the comments.  verifying

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

is there an easy way for a xul application (other than firefox) to add to this dropdown menu?