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Reviews for Close Tab by Double Right Click

Close Tab by Double Right Click by webextensions.org

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  • by RH, 7 months ago
    This add-on works perfectly - using its current left-click-right-click. On every website I've used it on, it's worked properly. That said: I had to disable this extension. There are too many times where I'll close a tab that I didn't want closed. Notably, I'll double-left-click text (to select it), then immediately right-click on that text (to get the context menu for options), and the tab will close. That's such a common click pattern with webpage text, I can't keep this otherwise excellent extension.
  • by Firefox user 15428448, 4 years ago
    Its closing the page with a single right click on v 102. Even when I just right click on a link. The right/left thing doesnt work. Hope youre able to find a fix as its a great app and I miss it! I had to disable this app for now.
  • by MisfortuneCookie, 4 years ago
    Does what it says on the tin. Unfortunately, the right click menu is opened after the tab is closed. C'est la vie.
  • by miguelk, 4 years ago
    Works great! Thank you! However, very sad it still hasn't been fixed so the context menu doesn't stay open on double right click. The Chrome version works just fine. Why is this so...?
  • by Johann, 5 years ago
    Context-Menü is still open after Tab is closed. "Middle click on a page closes Tab" do not have this trouble, so it does not come from FF. But anyway its GREAT, thank You
  • by Firefox user 14526812, 6 years ago
    after tab closes the right click menu remains open on the next tab. Can this be changed so that the menu is auto closed?
  • by joffrey, 7 years ago
    Thanks for addon. Possible to make it so I can just right click the tab to close?
    谢谢你的开发，但是能不能右键单击标签来关闭当前页面呢？
  • by Juanka Hula, 7 years ago
    I was asking if you could create a new addon. Also by default vanilla firefox does not do anything with double left click so I dont see what would be the problem with it.

    >Great addon. Could you make one to open a new tab by double left clicking on a tab?

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Double click is a common gesture which is used for various other useful purposes, so that wouldn't be a part of this add-on.

    EDIT 2:

    In case you are asking about double left clicking on the tab header itself, I believe that is not supported in the new WebExtensions architecture used by Firefox.

    EDIT 1:

    Double left click (and also triple left click) is very often used for selecting text. Apart from that, various websites use double click for some common UI/UX operations. Hence, in my opinion, such conflicting shortcuts/gesture shouldn't be used.

    But, in case you still want such a functionality, you can modify this extension to create a new one by following these steps:
    - Go to https://github.com/webextensions/close-tab-by-double-right-click
    - Download the code as a zip file by clicking on the "Clone or download" button
    - Extract the downloaded zip file
    - In the extracted file close-tab-by-double-right-click.js , modify the line which says:
    if (e.which !== 3) {
    MODIFY THIS LINE TO
    if (e.which !== 1) {
    - Reference: The above mentioned line can also be currently seen at: https://github.com/webextensions/close-tab-by-double-right-click/blob/master/extension/scripts/close-tab-by-double-right-click.js#L9
    - After that, you may zip the files inside the extension folder and use that to create the add-on via https://addons.mozilla.org/ for your use. While publishing, if you wish to use the extension for personal use only, then there should be an option for self-distributed add-ons, you may want to select that.

    Hope that helps :-)
  • by siffe, 7 years ago
    Thanks for this! I have the same experience as the other reviewer: when I double r. click, on the first click the r. click context menu appears and does not go away after the tab is closed after the second r. click. I have to either click elsewhere or press ESC to get rid of it. This does not happen in your Chrome extension.

    Edit 11/11/17: updated to current version, problem still exists (Win7 Pro)

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Are using Firefox on Linux ?
    I have added a fix for Firefox on Linux, can you update to the latest version and test again?

    Edit:
    I'm done with the analysis and it is a bug for Firefox-on-Windows with apparently no workarounds :-/
    I'll file a bug report to Firefox.
    Till then, I don't see any other alternative approach while sticking to double-right-click-on-page gesture for closing tab.