651605 - right click on empty portion of "tabs' bar" line does not raise tab menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581646

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[john]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

This bug relates to a new "behavior" in Fox4, compared to 3.16

Previously, when right clicking on the empty portion of the line of tabs, the tab drop-down list was produced.

In fox4, instead, a right-click brings up the general menu/toolbar drop-down list

A small matter, but in order to use the undo command, and if there is only one or two tabs open, the mouse has to travel to the far left of the Fox window, a slight pain if using a typical wide screen laptop.

This behavior occurs with the tabs at the top or the bottom.



Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Recommend moving the "ownership" of that empty space, in the same line as the tabs, to the tabs, instead of the general menu

I have tab-mix plus installed.   I also had tab-mix plus installed on the previous incarnation of Fox 3 on my laptop.

I have bookmarks reenabled from the Fox4 default, too.   I am, essentially, recreating the Fox3 header format.   I would suggest the availability of a/the/some horizontal line or other visual cue to segregate tabs from book marks...

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Completely off point, but it is curious how MS went to that goofy header and general formatting style for Office 2007/2010, which included rounded edges to nearly everything, and the elimination of the valuable menu system, and fox duplicated it.   And their goofy ribbon, too, which, in combination with everything else they changed, increased the number of mouse clicks to do common tasks.   Interesting how that style migrated into Fox -- but.... congratulations to the Fox team for allowing users to restore the older system...!