423105 - Put the "New Tab button" on the toolbar by default

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288541

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Pradeep Kumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
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The "new tab button" should be shown in the toolbar by default. This is one of the proposed solutions to bug 392870.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Several previous bugs asking for the same thing were marked as dups of bug 186865, perhaps incorrectly.

Comment 2

[Gábor Stefanik]

This is definitely not a dupe of bug 186865, as that bug asks for a "New tab" button *on the tab bar*, which is useless because it's unusable when the tab bar is hidden, so it doesn't help discoverability at all. IMO this is a completely harmless thing to do, as it doesn't even increase the toolbar area from 2.x thanks to the moved Home button.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

It wouldn't harm if there were more buttons on the toolbar by default I think.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I tried to persuade mconnor that he'd changed his mind since 2005, but he didn't believe me, he thinks he hasn't.

Comment 5

[Gábor Stefanik]

But what are his arguments? Space can't be, since it just replaces Home. Currently a new or disabled user can't open a new tab at all, since New Tab is hidden in the File menu or behind a key combo (and disabled users often can't do key combos). Also, in many languages, "new tab" was translated into "new page", which, given a fact that the overall UI feels like an old, tabless browser, might mean to some people a function that creates a new, empty, editable page in the current window, with no tabs. The "New tab" button is *DEFINITELY* needed. More importantly, IE7 and Opera all have New Tab buttons, an integral feature of a tabbed browser.