751233 - Tabs tab/button should be larger relative to Menu button

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Alec]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3
Build ID: 20120502042005

Steps to reproduce:

I often accidentally hit the Menu button instead of the Tabs tab. (I love the new Aurora/Android interface and surf a lot on a Samsung 10" tablet in landscape mode, using my thumbs almost exclusively.)

I expect most users, like me, use  the Tabs tab more than the Menu button. Since they're right beside each other and the Menu button's wider, it's really easier to hit the Menu button when aiming for the Tabs tab/button. 

Since there's a fair bit of screen real-estate used by the address bar, how about making the Tabs tab (or button) a little bit wider, or reduce the black space surrounding the image for the Menu button a bit smaller/narrower? (I really don't think making the address bar a bit narrower is an issue; when switching from landscape to portrait, it gets much narrower while the Tabs tab and Menu button stay the same size.)

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

This sounds like something we should take into account as we start designing the tablet-optimized version of the native UI.

Comment 2

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Hi Alec, our plans for the 10" tablet UI take this into consideration. We actually move the Tabs button to the far left and leave the overflow menu on the right. This is partly to avoid accidentally tapping one or the other, and primarily to allow for comfortable two-handed browsing (you can scroll pages with your right thumb, and lists of tabs / remote tabs with your left, when the tabs menu is open.

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/61892693@N03/7003043715/in/set-72157629634831895

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Ian does this make it won't fix for the phone UI?

Comment 4

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Kevin, yes I think so.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We have bugs on file for the tablet work. For the phone UI this is wontfix.