356107 - Cannot open new tab with doubleclick if many tabs are open

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

When you open more then 4 tabs there is no room to double click for a new tab. There are other options like Control-T, File New Tab, and Middle clicking. The double click feature is useless once you have greater then 4 tabs open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Four websites
2.See there is no room to double click to open 5th tab
3.

Actual Results:  
Open Firefox
Open 4+ websites
See there is no room to double click the tab bar and open a new tab

Expected Results:  
Room to double click to generate the 5th or 6th tab.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I'm afraid this is WONTFIX because bug 312896 made an end to the sensitivity of the tab bar to double clicks above and below tabs.
Maybe you'll find a solution in Bug 345950 comment 1. 

Comment 2

[Mike]

This is not a doubleclick above and below the tabs. It is double click between the last tab and the "list all tabs" button when 7 or more tabs are open. A space should be left in between the last tab and the "list all tabs" button to be able to double click and get a new tab.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this is an enhancement request, but leaving unused space in tab bar sounds like a bad thing. 
There is nothing in the tabbar that can be used to open a new tab with the mouse when the tabbar is full. There is elsewhere, but not there.

Comment 5

[Mike]

Why would leaving 5px of space be a bad thing? A user gets use to a "new tab" method then must look for a new method once they reach a certain number of tabs. 

Comment 6

[Przemyslaw Bialik]

I'm using Tab Clicking Options extension - http://twanno.mozdev.org/ , I've set it  to open new tab when double clicking on a tab and this way I don't have to find empty space on tabbar and I'm protected against lack of such space.
So maybe just allow this action and it would nicely fix this bug :) (could be in a form of hidden pref at least) ?

Comment 7

[Matthew]

It (double clicking an empty spot on the tab bar to open a new tab) is a weird feature if it stops being available if/when more than 4 tabs are open.

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We have a new tab button in the tab strip that serves this purpose now.