503757 - Tab close button is broken when one tab open

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 342626

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Chris Lineker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060219 Camino/2.0b3 (like Firefox/3.0.11)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060219 Camino/2.0b3 (like Firefox/3.0.11)

The tab close button doesn't work when only one tab is open, despite having a graphic and tooltip

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. close all tabs but one
2. try to close the last tab
3. cry because it doesnt work
Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
tab should be closed and a new tab opened

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Note that the close button is disabled on the last tab (and the tooltip belongs to the tab, not the button).  This works as designed.

Comment 2

[Chris Lineker]

If this is working as designed, then the design is wrong.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm not sure if you're referring to the button on the tab or the button in the toolbar, but both of them are working exactly as intended, and the reasoning for their functionality is outlined in the other bugs. To recap, this is how the OS handles the single-tab case, and this is also how Firefox and Safari handle it (Safari removes the widget entirely, while Firefox leaves it enabled but the behaviour changes to clear the content area, like you closed the window and then opened a new one with a blank tab).