430595 - allow tab bar to be scrolled manually with secondary mouse button

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Matt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Allow the user to click-and-hold on the tab bar with the secondary mouse button and drag to either side.  Doing this action should scroll the tab bar - essentially pulling the tabs down the line.  

Depending on how the user controls their mouse, the tab bar will be able to be "dragged" or "thrown".  

If the pointer is nearly stopped when releasing the mouse button, then the tab bar will only be "dragged" and the tabs will only scroll as far as the pointer.

If the pointer is still moving to either side when the mouse button is released, the tab bar will be "thrown".  The speed at which the pointer is moving when the mouse button is released determines how fast and therefore how far the tab bar will scroll. The scroll speed will start to decelerate immediately and then come to a stop.  This is just like scrolling on the iPhone.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

This has long been implemented for the mouse wheel and for trackpads that support scrolling.