473221 - Need UI for tab preferences

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Joshua Nixon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090112 Shredder/3.0b2pre ID:20090112025726

TB 3 nightlies still don't have any UI pref options for tabs (ie, show/hide tab if only one present, enable/disable tabs, etc.)

This set of prefs should be accessible from the Preferences UI as in Fx, should not have to fire up Config Editor to make changes to this.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I'm not sure all that functionality exists for Tb tabs, does it?  Likely this might be a part of bug 392328.  However would make more sense for me to understand what kind of tab options we need and then make preferences for those options that make sense to have prefs.  I don't think we should make a bunch of prefs UI and then try to fit things in behind them.

bug 468704 is likely about show / hide of the tab bar

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Joshua, do you still see a need for this?  If you do, can you provide more detail?

Currently the only UI exposed pref Firefox exposed that might be applicable to Thunderbird is
 Warn me when closing multiple tabs
(4 others don't really translate to THunderbird, like Open new windows in a new tab instead)

Thunderbird has two
- close message window/tab on move or delete (not really tab specific)
- open new messages in tab / window / ... (but not about tab control per se)

Comment 3

[Joshua Nixon]

I haven't felt the need for any changes in this recently. I'm closing as WFM.