599734 - Extend tabs context menu on all tab-bar width

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581646

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[nicolas m]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100925 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100925 Firefox/4.0b7pre

Since some version of Firefox 4 beta, the tabs specific context menu is only displayed when right-clicking on tabs. Before that, the right-click zone to obtain that context menu was extending to all tab-bar (even where there was no tab).

Example of usability issues caused by this new behaviour (for someone who don't use keyboard short-cuts) : 
- Close the most right tab (right click on it, close tab).
- The tab disappears and the tab-bar is now empty at its place.
- Now, you want to  re-open the tab.
- Right-click on the empty place.
> Expected result : the tab context-menu open, and you can open the tab with the penultimate option in the menu (I have it only in French right now).
> Actual result in Firefox 4 beta : the common toolbar context menu (to customize the toolbars and all that) is opened instead.

I know that now the tab-bar is closer to a normal toolbar, but the common toolbar contextual menu shouldn't appears here, it's harmful to navigation.

(tested on Linux/Gnome)

Reproducible: Always