User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 Build ID: 20150125222008 Firefox for Android Steps to reproduce: Tab Panel in Firefox 36 for Android using Tablet UI. Attempted to close a tab by swiping it off the screen. Actual results: Browser switched to tab instead of closing it. Expected results: Tab should have been closed and removed from the Tab Panel.

I don't think we want to support tab swiping with the re-design, but that's up to UX. Anthony? WONTFIX?

Oh that is a pity. For users who use Firefox daily on both phones and tablets I've already seen them struggling with this issue; in their minds, and mine, why would it behave differently on a tablet to their phone? It's just a bigger screen, but now requires the user to think 'does Firefox consider this a tablet' before taking an action. It this will be WONTFIX, would it be possible to make the x-to-close more prominent on each tab preview? It is very small and sifficult to hit ( particularly after vainly swiping at it three times ).

(In reply to Andrew B from comment #2) > Oh that is a pity. > > For users who use Firefox daily on both phones and tablets I've already seen > them struggling with this issue; in their minds, and mine, why would it > behave differently on a tablet to their phone? It's just a bigger screen, > but now requires the user to think 'does Firefox consider this a tablet' > before taking an action. > > It this will be WONTFIX, would it be possible to make the x-to-close more > prominent on each tab preview? It is very small and sifficult to hit ( > particularly after vainly swiping at it three times ). This will be covered in the future, it is a work in progress. See Bug 1017338

(In reply to Andrew B from comment #2) > It this will be WONTFIX, would it be possible to make the x-to-close more > prominent on each tab preview? It is very small and sifficult to hit ( > particularly after vainly swiping at it three times ). Anthony, any thoughts on this? I've had similar issues before I got used to the X's hit area.

Yep, I agree this is missing and this work should be tracked in bug 1017338.