601565 - Disable close App Tabs via clicking the mouse scroll wheel

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 637486

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Maniac Vlad Florin (:vladmaniac)]

Build Id: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20101003 Firefox/4.0b7pre

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Prerequisites: 

Firefox new/clean profile.
Mouse with scroll wheel. 

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Steps: 
1. Perform some browsing with multiple tabs. 
2. Turn some tabs into app tabs. 
3. Focus an app tab 
4. Click/Press the mouse scroll button(scroll wheel). 

Actual: 

App Tab closes 

Expected: 

Should not close the app tab. This comes in handy, but only for unpinned tabs. 

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Note: 
This problem is put out due to home tab project specifications/app tabs, 
which states that app tabs cannot accidentally be closed. 
Close by scroll event click should be on after focused tab is unpinned.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 3. Focus an app tab 
> 4. Click/Press the mouse scroll button(scroll wheel). 
> 
> Actual: 
> 
> App Tab closes 

Lets ask UX if that is a behavior we want to have or not.

Comment 2

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

This should not close the app tab (they should be hard to close, to reduce accidental closure).

Comment 3

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Alex, are you asserting that this issue should block? It feels like something I'd like to see us fix, but undo close tab does the right thing and accel-w still closes the tab (at least it does for me on mac) so I'm marking this blocking- for the time being.

Comment 4

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>accel-w
>still closes the tab (at least it does for me on mac) so I'm marking this
>blocking- for the time being.

Yeah, I believe that this bug and accel-w (now that I realize that is still in play) should both ideally block.

Comment 5

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

note that bug 580638 is also rejected, logically either both should not block or both should block. So if we change our mind here we should modify the blocking flag over there as well.