516194 - Make double clicking blank area of tab bar open a new compose tab

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, enhancement)

Description

[Caspy7]

When you double click on the empty part of the tab bar in Firefox (as well as IE, Safari & Opera) a new tab is opened.  Now that Thunderbird has a tabbed interface it would seem to make good sense to follow a similar behavior.

Given the options of what could be contained in the new tab, a new email composition would seem to make the most sense.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, given that we can't open compose in a tab yet (and doing so will involve rather a lot of refactoring of the compose backend), I hope you're not in a hurry ;)

Comment 2

[Caspy7]

If a tab-based version of the compose window is not planned for 3.0, I still feel that double clicking on the empty area should do something useful.

Is there indeed no plan to have tabbed compose in 3.0?

Comment 3

[DonGato]

If there is no plan for compose being tab aware then I think is useless to enable the tab feature at all for 3.0. Having a half implemented tab interface is more confusing than helpful.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Yep. Not opening the bookmarks manager and download manager in tabs is probably why Firefox has been such a miserable failure, we wouldn't want to go down that road.

Comment 5

[DonGato]

No, but opening some pages in tabs and others in Windows would have. That would be a proper analogy. ;)

Comment 6

[Michelle Frazier]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from unserxiedream1988.