User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021223 Build Identifier: In Mozilla, on the tab bar, there is a "New Tab" button on the tab bar, a logical place for it to be. In Phoenix, using the Customize Toolbars function, one can place this button in any other toolbar. A few people (http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2065) have proposed for it to be either placed on the tab bar by default, or, better, to have the ability to add or remove it using the Customize feature. alanjstr, after looking through the code, came to the conclusion that the New Tab button was removed from the Tab Bar. If this is the case, could it be put back in? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

I don't think it was my conclusion; someone else pointed it out to me.

This was explicitely removed. wontfix.

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VERIFYING obvious WONTFIX bugs. Filter on firebirdWontFix to filter these bugs. I skipped a few that I'm unsure about from their summary and will manually go through them.

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Why? You've got all these people that have put in RFEs. Why not add an option to have it or not?

Um. It is an RFE, dont brush it off just because it isn't a bug. I'd personally like to see this feature available too. Unilateraly declaring that the community WONTFIX an RFE just because it doesn't sound good to you isn't a very open-source attitude. BTW, if I wanted to write some code to do this, is there even the remotest possibility of it getting checked in to the tree? I know about the review & superreview needed, but would code like need approval on any other levels? I am a total n00b to mozilla developing, but I learn fast, have a lot of free time, and want this feature badly.

Reid, I doubt that code enabling this will ever get accepted into the firebird source code. But you could write an extension.

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(In reply to comment #2) > This was explicitely removed. wontfix. Could you (or anyone else) please explain what was the reasoning to remove this? I'm sure the other 8 users who opened the dupes would like to know too. Prog.

I tried to search for this answer on Mozillazine's forums actually, but due to the hoopla over the new Winstripe theme, the search function has been disabled. I too have always wondered why this was removed for Firefox. Understandably, placing the NewTab button on the bar immediately above the Tab bar is a fair enough compromise, but instead of disabling it completely, could not a pref have been added under the browser section in options to toggle this button on and off, with the default being off? I can't imagine that most people who use the New Tab button place it anywhere other than where it used to be, and still is in Mozilla. If anyone is interested in a patch such as this... and thinks there's ANY possibility of it getting accepted I would be willing to take a stab at it.

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Why is this WONTFIX? I see no logical reason why this feature shouldn't be added in. It wouldn't take away any user experience, it just makes Firefox even more customisable, which I thought was the whole point of the Firefox project in the first place, to develop a next generation browser with emphasis on customisability: "S, M, L or XL—You Choose" I don't know why the tab bar wasn't treated as a normal toolbar in the first place, because there's no major difference between it and any other toolbar apart from the fact that it has a more specific function.

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This really should be fixed. It's obvious that people want this functionality. If not for the added funtionality, it should at least be fixed so people stop reporting duplicates.

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An solution is to make the tab bar behave like e.g. the bookmarks toolbar so buttons can be placed on it. Then also put a "new tab" button on it by default.

(In reply to comment #26) > *** Bug 266507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Without the explicit button tabbed browsing is complicated and unusable for most users, we've a "close" button in the default layout but not an "open" one, that's not logic and lack of consistence. If my memory does not deceive me, the Tabbrowser Preferences extension set a small icon in the tab toolbar. Anyway, Mozilla Suite has got it. We promote everywhere that tabbed browsing and we make it complicated to use to new users, I really don't understand this choice, and as I see here I'm not alone.

Dammit! Why won't you just fix it! I don't want to have to take 30min to install when I set up firefox for someone else, and manually modifing the basics extention to install on 1.0PR takes precious time!!!! JUST GIVE US THE OPTION ALREADY!!!!!! ITS BEEN TWO YEARS, AND SOME PIGHEADED DEV IS BLOCKING IT!!!! GAHHHHHH!!!!

The place of the new tab button is by design - the bug was WONTFIXed a long time ago (see comment 2). please don't play with blocking flags.

Could someone explain the (strange) reason for removing the button from the tab bar? Design??? So it's good design the close tab button, but the new tab is bad design. It's a complete nonsense....

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Here is easy solution that I found Install extension "Toolbar Enhancements" 0.16.2 > Then click on standard toolbar > Customize > Drag New Tab button to Tab bar Miss Kajal Shah

I cannot understand why this bug isn't fixed. At the moment installing Firefox installs a browser - nothing more, and users have to search some bad categorized list (aka addons.update.mozilla.org) for an extension that does what should have been included in Firefox from the start. It is exactly the same as having the Linux kernel but then having to download modules for your harddrive from modules.kernel.org. It simply makes no sense at the moment. Why put your browser together from loads of little bits instead of just giving users a browser with all the bits that need to be included from the start?

Just /reminding/: "New tab" button can be added to the normal toolbars, via the cust dialog (View->Toolbars->Customize).

Yes - but there is no really good location for it. If the tab bar were editable like the bookmarks toolbar, wouldn't be a problem anymore,

(In reply to Asa Dotzler, comment #2) > This was explicitely removed. wontfix. Could you (or anyone else) please explain what was the reasoning to remove this? I'm sure the other 18 users who opened the dupes would like to know too. Brant Gurganus, feel free to chime in. After all, since you verified this wontfix, you probably know why. Prog.

I think this should be fixed...

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I don't understand why the button was removed from the tab bar in the first place, and I aint the only one, can someone please explain?? I think that was a bad decision... Here's what I said in bug 347473, a (not-intentional) dupe I made of this bug: "Since we're supposed to be serious about tabs, I think a "New Tab" button should be in the /default/ UI. I think it makes sense to have it on the tab bar, rather than the navigation toolbar. The "New Tab Button on Tab Bar" extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1456/) does a good job of this I think. Opera has the actual text "New Tab" on the button, but I don't think that's necessary and mostly wastes precious space. New users won't know the key-combinations (CTRL + T) and other shortcuts (e.g. double clicking a blank area of the tab bar) every power user uses, to open a new tab they gotta go through the File menu or, if they know how and are bothered enough, add the New Tab button to the navigation toolbar. I also think the tab bar should always be displayed by defualt, but there's no point in that unless/until this bug is fixed." I think we should simply add the button in the same way the recently-added "all tabs" menu button introduced in bug 343251 was added. As for making the tab bar a customizable toolbar, that might make a neat feature too, but to fix this bug it's not necessary.

Note that if bug 347930 is fixed, this bug can be fixed in a way that is user-customizable and does not change the default install/appearance or add new prefs. Therefore, I'm making this depend on that bug, but I'm not yet un-WONTFIXing it.

(Followup note for clarity: if bug 347930 is fixed, then this bug is automatically fixed, because you can then place the existing "New Tab" button directly on the tab bar if you want it. So there wouldn't be further work to do here.)

Adding a close tab button would make less sense now in Firefox 2, now that the close button on the right has been removed, and put on all the tabs instead. It wouldn't be symmetrical anymore. It would have been perfect for 1.5 though. Anyway, for all the different things people want with tabs, there's the Tab Mix Plus extension (http://tmp.garyr.net/), which can do almost anything you want to the tabs. Personally, I have a new tab button, a right-side close tab button, and close buttons on all tabs. I don't get how people can complain about a feature they can already get through an extension not being in the base install of Firefox. The whole point of Firefox is the extensions, you can trick it out just how you want it.

(In reply to comment #44) > I don't get how people can complain about a feature they can already get > through an extension not being in the base install of Firefox. The whole point > of Firefox is the extensions, you can trick it out just how you want it. I believe a New Tab button along the tab bar and enabled by default (preferably with the tab bar always on) may be benificial from a usability perspective (I ain't no usability expert - perhaps this should be brought to those who are?). Tabs are supposed to be a big thing in Firefox, and getting bigger in Firefox 2. I dunno how we got so far without this simple button. (we have an All Tabs button on by default, and no New Tab button..? I would think we should have both.)

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You've got all these people that have put in RFEs. Why not add an option to have it or not?