Closed Bug 593653 Opened 15 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Scrolling the mouse wheel over the tabs does not switch tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Version:
4.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: me, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100904 Firefox/4.0b6pre Tabs should be switched while scrolling over them. This is normal behavior of GTK+ application, for example Nautilus. This is probably related to bug #281192. If this bug is considered as valid (and I hope so), it should block 4.0. Reproducible: Always
Blocks: 572482
The difference is that on nautilus, most people don't have so much tabs they overflow. I understand that it seems natural to switch tab when scrolling on tabs when they are visible. But when I want to switch to a tab that is hidden, I don't want to have to switch to every single tab between my two tabs... I just want to see the other tab. Would it be logic to scroll the ribbon of tabs when the tabs overflow, but switch to next/prev tab when the tab bar is static? It would be a good compromise, I believe.
(In reply to comment #1) > Would it be logic to scroll the ribbon of tabs when the tabs overflow, but > switch to next/prev tab when the tab bar is static? It would be a good > compromise, I believe. There was a patch in bug 281192 that did this.
For me, the situation is this: In FF3.6, scrolling the mouse wheel switches tabs. It does that for a while and I got quite used to it. In FF4b6, this doesn't work any more. Was it an undocumented (unintendet) feature or is the current situation a regression. For me, the discussion doesn't really involve gnome/gtk.
(In reply to comment #3) > For me, the situation is this: In FF3.6, scrolling the mouse wheel switches > tabs. It does that for a while and I got quite used to it. In FF4b6, this > doesn't work any more. It's not supposed to work in Firefox 3.6. I bet an add-on made it work for you, be it intentionally or unintentionally.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > For me, the situation is this: In FF3.6, scrolling the mouse wheel switches > > tabs. It does that for a while and I got quite used to it. In FF4b6, this > > doesn't work any more. > > It's not supposed to work in Firefox 3.6. I bet an add-on made it work for you, > be it intentionally or unintentionally. It's supposed to scroll the tab bar if there isn't enought place to show all tabs. If this is broken (without any addon on your profile ;-)), please fill a new bug and ask for 2.0 blocking.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > It's not supposed to work in Firefox 3.6. I bet an add-on made it work for you, > > be it intentionally or unintentionally. Indeed. Turns out it was the FireGestures addon which provided the functionality. As of now, it's incompatible with FF4. > It's supposed to scroll the tab bar if there isn't enought place to show all > tabs. This part is working. Thanks for clearing things up!
Version: unspecified → 4.0 Branch
Strictly speaking, if you don't intend to change the behaviour, this is NOTABUG (?)
Is this a duplicate of bug 281192?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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