612117 - Recently Closed Tabs uses middle mouse button awkardly

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Skotavus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When attempting to reopen a recently closed tab from the History drop-down menu, clicking on a tab in the list with the middle mouse button clears that tab from the menu.

Since the middle mouse button is used to OPEN new tabs when browsing in Mozilla, this makes it awkward to remember not to use the middle button on the History menu.

If the middle mouse button were used to re-open tabs in the History menu, and a right mouse button click brought up the [Restore Tab/Delete Tab] dialog box as per normal, this would make it much more usable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close tab in browser
2. >History >Recently Closed Tabs
3. Middle mouse button click on a listed tab
Actual Results:  
Tab is deleted from menu without reopening

Expected Results:  
Tab should reopen to either next tab or its previous position in the tab toolbar

Comment 1

[aravindm]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13pre) Gecko/20101115 Namoroka/3.6.13pre

Works for me. Able to open the last closed tab from History>Recently Closed Tabs by middle clicking with mouse button.
Please try if it works fine by creating a new profile. 
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile.

Comment 2

[Teodosia Pop]

Works for me using Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12.

Comment 3

[u279076]

Verified using Minefield nightly from 2011-01-22.