404909 - RFE - Show close button [x] on tabs only on hover

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[moonese]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

Now since Firefox 2.0, the default style for tab's close icon is to only display the close icon on the current tab, 
while I think the Eclipse tab style is more reasonable, i.e.
Show close icon on current tab, but also show close icon on other tabs when the mouse hover on them.

Please consider this, minor code change, but with noticeable user experience improvement. :)


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
only show tab's close icon on current tab

Expected Results:  
show tab's close icon like the style in Eclipse

Comment 1

[moonese]

Attachment: under Eclipse, the close icon will also be displayed when mouse hover on them

The eclipse tab's close icon display style.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Pretty sure this is a dupe.

Comment 3

[moonese]

I can not find the original bug report, so please consider this suggestion anyway.
dupe or not.

Comment 5

[Jez Ng [:int3]]

Attachment: Initial attempt

I tried enabling this today (simple enough) but it makes bug 351433 very obvious. Unfortunately I don't think there's an easy fix for that one...

Comment 6

[Jez Ng [:int3]]

Attachment: Initial attempt

Comment 7

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

We don't hide it because it's in the background or ugly, we hide it because the click target for the close button becomes too large a percentage of the tab as to easily introduce accidental closing of tabs when the tabs get narrow.

This is working as intended, and the Eclipse behavior is not something we want.