Closed Bug 953217 Opened 11 years ago Closed 2 years ago

middle click in tab manager does not close tab

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
112 Branch
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
relnote-firefox --- 112+
firefox112 --- verified

People

(Reporter: jidanni, Assigned: mconley)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: blocked-ux, Whiteboard: fidefe-quality-foundation)

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Bug 953217 - Make middle-clicking in the Tab Manager list close the associated tab. r?dao!
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Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 Iceweasel/28.0a2 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20131215004001 Steps to reproduce: Middle clicking on horizontally listed tabs deletes them, But then one day I middle clicked on a vertically listed tab, and... Actual results: Nothing. Expected results: Should have closed them just the same!
Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser
Blocks: 618791
Reproduced on latest Aurora (build ID: 20140106004002) and on latest Nightly (build ID: 20140105030203) using the STR from the description. Also reproducing on Windows and Mac OS X.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Version: 28 Branch → Trunk

Issue still reproduces on Win10 and Mac 10.13 using latest NB 96.0a1 (20211111045525) (when pressing the middle click(the mouse wheel) on drop down menu, nothing happens).

Severity: normal → S3
Blocks: tab-manager
No longer blocks: 618791
Keywords: blocked-ux
Priority: -- → P3
See Also: → https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620199
Summary: middle click in vertical tab list does not delete tab → middle click in tab manager does not close tab

UX seems interested enough in this that they'd put it on their shortlist of papercuts they'd like to tackle. I'm going to see if I can quickly knock this out.

Assignee: nobody → mconley
Pushed by mconley@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9258d35874f1 Make middle-clicking in the Tab Manager list close the associated tab. r=dao

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9258d35874f1

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
status-firefox112: --- → fixed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 112 Branch

Should we add a relnote for this, or put something on SUMO even? (I just looked on SUMO and there doesn't seem to be an article on this menu that we could just update. :( )

Flags: needinfo?(mconley)

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]:

Users that use the Tab Manager (the panel showing the list of tabs in the tab strip) will find that they can now close tabs by middle-clicking on items in that list.

[Affects Firefox for Android]:

No.

[Suggested wording]:

Do you use the tab list panel in the tab bar? If so, you can now close tabs by middle-clicking items in that list.

[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:

None.

relnote-firefox: --- → ?
Flags: needinfo?(mconley)
Whiteboard: fidefe-quality-foundation
Flags: qe-verify+

Reproduced the initial issue using an old Nightly build before the fix. Verified that this is fixed on Firefox 112.0b4 across platforms (Windows 10, Ubuntu 22.04 and macOS 13), the tabs from "List all tabs" can now be closed using middle mouse button.

Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
status-firefox112: fixed → verified
Flags: qe-verify+
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