581913 - Add "Undo Close Tab" to the New-Tab button's context menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1014313

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Ian Pottinger]

Both "New Tab" and "Undo Close Tab" both result in the (re)creation of a new tab.  This is a companion to bug 581912 both of which intend to expand to target area for accessing the "Undo Close Tab" feature for mouse users.

I'm not one for having 50+ tabs open at once.  The Test Pilot study highlighted that I usually have only 3-4 tabs open at any given time and very rarely have at max more than 5-6.  Now with App Tabs hosting three of those usually opened tabs, the tab strip is a very empty place and to undo a closed tab requires targeting one of those three relative small App Tabs at the far left of the screen.  I find myself constantly right-clicking the empty tab strip expecting to see "Undo Close Tab."

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

The content menu isn't just on top of the New Tab button, but on the entire tab bar. Note that the Firefox 4.0 beta and Minefield currently have a bug that only shows the context menu on top of a tab, so not on the New Tab button, or the tab pulldown on the right.

Comment 3

[Ian Pottinger]

See bug 581646 for the missing entry on the tab strip's context menu.  I filed this bug separately because it might be WONTFIX while the other definitely needs to be fixed.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This was fixed as part of bug 1014313. When the tabstrip is in overflow mode, the Undo Close Tab menuitem is found in the all-tabs menu.