Tab context menu

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  • Revision id: 201742
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  • Creator: AliceWyman
  • Comment: replaced Nightly image with Fx78TabMenu image
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  • Reviewed by: AliceWyman
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In Firefox version 78, the Tab context menu has been changed to add a new Close Multiple Tabs submenu. Inside of this submenu are options to Close Tabs to the Right and Close Other Tabs. This context menu can be viewed by right-clickinga secondary/two-finger click or holding down the control key while you click on a Firefox tab.

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This change was made for the following reasons:

  1. As features are added and context menus grow, we would like to keep the size of the menu short enough to be read quickly. One of the ways to do this is to group similar commands to shorten the height of the context menu. The Close Multiple Tabs submenu provides us an area to add some extra features that users have asked for over the years such as the Close Tabs to the Left option. It should also be noted that we do not want to remove context menu items because some are the only accessible non-keyboard-shortcut way for keyboard-only users to access functionality such as Pin Tab, Mute Tab, Duplicate Tab, etc.
  2. Some users have reported that they have accidentally clicked Close Tabs to the Right and Close Other Tabs. While a user has the ability to restore their tabs with Undo Closed Tabs, some data may have been lost as well as potential increased network usage if we are unable to restore the pages from the Firefox cache. We decided that adding a little "speed bump" before a large destructive action could benefit users. We prefer this over a dialog box that requires users to move their mouse across the screen and thus requires more time.