366511 - Need to have a close tab "X" on both tabs and the far right.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070109 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Build Identifier: Firefox 2.0 nightly builds

Spinoff of Bug 324227 – Implement old tab close button as a preffable [sic] option. See Comment #55.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some tabs.
2. Observe lack of close button in both places.
3.
Actual Results:  
No close button in both places.

Expected Results:  
Close button appearing in both places.

No additional information.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The extension TabX has this function now: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/785/
It required an extra restart here after changing the pref to 3.

Comment 2

[Worcester12345]

Not quite. From their description there: "Makes the close buttons on the tabs always visible, even if there are lots of tabs open, and irrespective of the hidden browser.tabs.closeButtons preference."

I don't want them to show if there are lots of tabs, but I DO want the "x" on both the tab and the right. It is far more useful that way.

Thanks anyhow.

Comment 4

[Worcester12345]

This bug also exists on the trunk.

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

Can someone confirm this bug?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're not going to do this this, extension fodder if one really wants redundant buttons, but as a default UI this is overkill and fairly ugly.

Comment 7

[Worcester12345]

Not overkill at all. When there are a lot of tabs open, and you want to shut down maybe 5 to 10 of them, you have to try to hit the moving X to close them. If there were an X on the far right it is just click click click ... and done. FAR easier. Please reconsider.

Comment 10

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

Well, as I wrote in Bug 437223, I think this will be very useful if you don't have an easy input control (touchpad, trackball, mini-mouse, pointing stick, jog dial etc)