649627 - (Tabs on Bottom) Add threshold for resizing tabs when mouse moves off toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[ithinc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/6.0a1

When "Tabs on Top" is not checked and mouse moves off the tab bar towards the content, resizing happens immediately.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uncheck "Tabs on Top"
2. Open enough tabs and close them from a middle one
3. Move mouse to the content a little, for example 2px


Expected Results:  
It should resize when moving off is distant enough.

Comment 1

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Tabs on Bottom is a non-default, legacy mode, and I don't think it is worth the effort to implement and maintain the implementation for a threshold.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Non-default, yes. Legacy, no. The option is exposed in the UI, intentionally so far.

Comment 3

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Fair enough.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Same applies to tab on top when moving the mouse out to the title bar.

Comment 5

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

We want to change the behavior so that it always resizes immediately when
leaving the tab bar, so WONTFIX'ing this.

See bug 652735.

Comment 6

[ithinc]

The decision is rough.

Comment 7

[ithinc]

It's still valid a concern.

Comment 8

[ithinc]

Attachment: patch

Comment 9

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Comment on attachment 536896 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

I think we want bug 652735 instead.

Comment 10

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

Comment on attachment 536896 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Like Dão said, I don't think we want this. See bug 652735 comments 1 and 2.

Comment 11

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

This is WONTFIX, because we won't take a patch for it.
Reasons were stated in bug 652735.