618791 - Add a close button to the tab overflow menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1620199

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101212 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101212 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Currently if you click "List all tabs", you can switch to any tab that's listed on that window. However, by dragging a tab, you should be able to rearrange it's position on the tab strip.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Bug 596017 combines the Tabcandy & List all tabs Button Elements, so this RFE should be considered after that Merge.

Comment 2

[Paul [pwd]]

RFE?

Comment 3

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Request For Enhancement

Comment 4

[George Carstoiu]

Could be a nice feature, helping the user to be more organized in correlation with Bug 596017 - Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down.

Comment 5

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Could be a nice feature, helping the user to be more organized in correlation
> with Bug 596017 - Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list
> all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down.

Yeah, that's not really where I wanted to go with this. This should stay as far away from Panorama as possible. Panorama is nice for the people that want to use it, but ultimately this is about having a Window based (current set of tabs) with the simple ability to close as per Aero Peek overflow and reorder. It's actually a very simply request. I'd like to see the data in regards to Panorama adoption and success before we start tying simple tab management tools into it.

Also, if this is an 'RFE', why isn't it marked new?

Comment 6

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Bug 596017 combines the Tabcandy & List all tabs Button Elements, so this RFE
> should be considered after that Merge.

Based on the hierarchical picture drawn by XTC regarding this request. I've set the dependency.

Comment 8

[kolubinowicki]

Attachment: Mockup of enhancements

Please check attachment for mockup of enhancements:

-Close button directly in list all tabs menu (allow to close tab using only one click)

-Also consider to built-in by default in browser some enhancements from wonderful extension: List all tabs Menu. (like search bar, etc..)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/list-all-tabs-menu/
(currently not updated to work in Firefox 4.0)

Comment 10

[kolubinowicki]

All the requested features are nicely implemented in add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/all-tabs-helper/

Comment 11

[fl0]

I think these types of feature deserves to be integrated.
Why everything should be undertaken by add-ons ?
They don't change the way you browse or add functionalities dedicated to a restricted group of people, they would be useful for a lot a FF users.
But I suppose with the Australis UI release there is no hope for such features ?

Comment 12

[stochos]

The core feature request is the close button next to each tab that appears in the "List all tabs" menu. The rest of the features are nice-to-haves.

This should be relatively easy to implement and would be very useful; and a quick-win. Add-ons are an inefficient —wrt CPU/memory usage—means to implement something as simple as this as it is better to have it done in the core code

What is the status of this feature request? Is it being taken seriously?

Comment 13

[alex_mayorga]

Mr. Horlander,

Can we have your blessing for this to happen?

I think this could help people with "tab hoarding issues" =) and as such reduce the instances of OOM crashes and such...

FWIW this very bug bite me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 ID:20140818030205 CSet: 0aaa2d3d15cc

Comment 14

[alex_mayorga]

Perhaps also reconsider on bug 361609?

Comment 15

[stochos]

Please respond  Mr Horlander!

Comment 16

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Perhaps phlsa has some thoughts on this as well.

Comment 17

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

There's the tab center project going on right now: bug 1020372
In the second phase, tab center could more or less replace that menu and add the functionality you requested.

Comment 18

[stochos]

This is good news. 

The screen mock ups of Tab Centre look great but I could not see the tab close button. Perhaps it becomes visible when you hover in tab centre on a specific tab?

Also, which version of Firefox is Tab Centre to make its first appearance?

Comment 19

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

(In reply to stochos from comment #18)
> This is good news. 
> 
> The screen mock ups of Tab Centre look great but I could not see the tab
> close button. Perhaps it becomes visible when you hover in tab centre on a
> specific tab?
> 
> Also, which version of Firefox is Tab Centre to make its first appearance?

Yes, close buttons are only visible on hover (otherwise having so many buttons in a row would be quite jarring).

There's no version number associated with tab center yet, but it is on the short list for implementation.

Comment 20

[stochos]

An update on Tab Centre would be appreciated.

Has it been given a version number for release yet?

IT would be of great help to those users who have many tabs open concurrently.

Comment 21

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to stochos from comment #20)
> An update on Tab Centre would be appreciated.
> 
> Has it been given a version number for release yet?
> 
> IT would be of great help to those users who have many tabs open
> concurrently.

I think you meant to needinfo :phlsa? I believe he's running point on the Tab Centre UI work.

Comment 22

[stochos]

Thanks Paul. 

Attention: phlsa

An update on Tab Centre would be appreciated.

Has it been given a version number for release yet?

IT would be of great help to those users who have many tabs open concurrently.

Comment 23

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

(In reply to stochos from comment #22)
> Thanks Paul. 
> 
> Attention: phlsa
> 
> An update on Tab Centre would be appreciated.
> 
> Has it been given a version number for release yet?
> 
> IT would be of great help to those users who have many tabs open
> concurrently.

Tab center is still pretty high on our »we want that« list, but development hasn't started and there's no version number associated with it yet.

I agree that it would be great to have :)

Comment 24

[stochos]

Hi Phil

Kindly advise on the status of Tab centre?

Has a version number been assigned as yet? Development?

There is an addon that does this but alas, I believe it causes ram/cpu overhead.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/all-tabs-helper/?src=cb-dl-toprated

Perhaps the code for close button from this addon could be ported in the interim?

Comment 25

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

(In reply to stochos from comment #24)
> Hi Phil
> 
> Kindly advise on the status of Tab centre?
> 
> Has a version number been assigned as yet? Development?
> 
> There is an addon that does this but alas, I believe it causes ram/cpu
> overhead.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/all-tabs-helper/?src=cb-dl-
> toprated
> 
> Perhaps the code for close button from this addon could be ported in the
> interim?

There's no release assigned to it at the moment, but there are active discussions around how to prioritize it. Whether or not that means that the core team will be able to work on it in the near future is hard to tell.

Comment 26

[stochos]

Hi Phil
Please advise on the status of the Close Button within List All Tabs drop down menu (visible only on hover).

This RFE has a long history now and deserves to be fast tracked.

This feature will be appreciated by most users who have multiple tabs opened; also no such feature exists other browsers.

Comment 27

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Hey there, Tab Center is now available for experimental testing through Test Pilot, so you might want to try that:
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center

Comment 28

[stochos]

Thanks Phillip.
I tested it; but it is not what we need. It is way too elaborate. 

All we need is a close button that will appear on right of the active tab when the "List all tabs" menu of tabs appears. 

This feature will be used by most power users who generally have many tabs open.

Comment 29

[stochos]

Hi Again
It has sort of been implemented in a Firefox browser fork. 
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=12164

In particular see screen shot here.

https://forum.palemoon.org/download/file.php?id=5356&sid=3579b24e29432330b091e26bac28735b&mode=view

I think the implementation that I'm suggesting will be cleaner. 
Thanks

Comment 30

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Reopening and reducing this to the issue of having a close button.
We'll need to come up with a spec for that.

Comment 31

[Alessandro Decina]

I did a quick prototype of this. If there's still interest I'm happy to finish implementing it. Here's a video of the current approach in action https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbv1xen8j7nuixr/alltabs-close.mov?dl=0

I made the close button always visible since otherwise it's not clear what the interaction with the other "secondary buttons" (like the sound playing button) should be.

Also at the moment the all tabs button (down arrow that opens the menu) only appears after a threshold of tabs have been created, and disappears when the tab count gets below that threshold. This leads to weird behaviour when closing tabs from the menu: if you close enough tabs then the menu and the button disappear. Poof.

Comment 32

[Chris B.]

This is why I stopped reporting bugs on Firefox. I still get emails from bugs / new feature requests I reported EIGHT YEARS AGO and the developers are still trying to figure out whether to implement the change / who to assign the code creation to.

Comment 33

[jchen45]

Finally!!1 Does the video count as an anti-rickrolling? :D

In the meantime, Tab Center Redux works in a pinch (Ctrl+Shift+O on Windows).

Comment 35

[tupac570]

(In reply to Alessandro Decina from comment #31)

I did a quick prototype of this. If there's still interest I'm happy to finish implementing it. Here's a video of the current approach in action https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbv1xen8j7nuixr/alltabs-close.mov?dl=0

I made the close button always visible since otherwise it's not clear what the interaction with the other "secondary buttons" (like the sound playing button) should be.

Also at the moment the all tabs button (down arrow that opens the menu) only appears after a threshold of tabs have been created, and disappears when the tab count gets below that threshold. This leads to weird behaviour when closing tabs from the menu: if you close enough tabs then the menu and the button disappear. Poof.

I'd love when it would look like Opera, were the close button is only visible upon hovering.

Would you ever release this on the official add ons site?

Comment 36

[alex_mayorga]

(In reply to Alessandro Decina from comment #31)

I did a quick prototype of this. If there's still interest I'm happy to finish implementing it. Here's a video of the current approach in action https://www.dropbox.com/s/fbv1xen8j7nuixr/alltabs-close.mov?dl=0

I made the close button always visible since otherwise it's not clear what the interaction with the other "secondary buttons" (like the sound playing button) should be.

Also at the moment the all tabs button (down arrow that opens the menu) only appears after a threshold of tabs have been created, and disappears when the tab count gets below that threshold. This leads to weird behaviour when closing tabs from the menu: if you close enough tabs then the menu and the button disappear. Poof.

¡Hola Alessandro!

I for one would love to see your implementation finished and attached as a patch here.

I believe this would be very helpful for all the tab hoarders out there =)

¡Gracias!
Alex

Comment 38

[alex_mayorga]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

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