User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Build Identifier: The "new tab button" should be shown in the toolbar by default. This is one of the proposed solutions to bug 392870. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.

Several previous bugs asking for the same thing were marked as dups of bug 186865, perhaps incorrectly.

This is definitely not a dupe of bug 186865, as that bug asks for a "New tab" button *on the tab bar*, which is useless because it's unusable when the tab bar is hidden, so it doesn't help discoverability at all. IMO this is a completely harmless thing to do, as it doesn't even increase the toolbar area from 2.x thanks to the moved Home button.

It wouldn't harm if there were more buttons on the toolbar by default I think.

I tried to persuade mconnor that he'd changed his mind since 2005, but he didn't believe me, he thinks he hasn't.

But what are his arguments? Space can't be, since it just replaces Home. Currently a new or disabled user can't open a new tab at all, since New Tab is hidden in the File menu or behind a key combo (and disabled users often can't do key combos). Also, in many languages, "new tab" was translated into "new page", which, given a fact that the overall UI feels like an old, tabless browser, might mean to some people a function that creates a new, empty, editable page in the current window, with no tabs. The "New tab" button is *DEFINITELY* needed. More importantly, IE7 and Opera all have New Tab buttons, an integral feature of a tabbed browser.