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Discussion: Add ability to close tabs via double-click
liftcube wrote:
I don't think so. This functionality is for closing tab easily and rapidly. If I need to hold 1 second to close it, I'd better use a three-finger tab on my touchpad.
but the thing is, you can't solve all the problems with one change.
it needs to be decided whether double clicking is going to solve the accessibility problem (i.e. the X button being too small to touch on touch devices) or the speed problem (closing tabs quickly).
- double clicking can be implemented, solving accessibility problem and at the same time reduce the accidental tab closing by having (tap + tap and hold 1 second)
- double clicking can be implemented, solving speed problem, by having 3 taps instead of double tap/clicks. (slower than 2 taps/clicks but also prevents from accidental tab closing)
if they try to solve both problems with 1 implementation, that will certainly screw up everything.
- Yes your opinion is apparently right, but I'd say your "hold 1 second" solution may not be a good idea, because it does not actually fulfill the demand "fast close the tab"
liftcube wrote:
Yes your opinion is apparently right, but I'd say your "hold 1 second" solution may not be a good idea, because it does not actually fulfill the demand "fast close the tab"I myself use Edge desktop on touch devices and I find tapping on the X button not very accurate, i could use tap + tap hold 1 second to close tabs.
it doesn't necessarily have to slow things down.
it can have an acceleration. so, the first tab you want to close, you will tap and hold 1 second on it, if you keep holding, it will take half a second to close the next tab, then it'll take 1/4 of a second to close the 3rd tab and so on. so you can close 10 tabs in few seconds.
this acceleration will help to even close tabs faster than simple double tap/click.
I think this is the ultimate solution, solving everything:
- the speed problem
- the accidentally closing tabs problem
- the problem with X button being too small on some devices
p.s I've seen and used this kind of user experience on other software before.
it's like on phone (I use Swiftkey keyboard on Android), when you've written a sentence on a chat but before sending it, you decide to delete all of it. you hold down the delete key [X] and you see that the first time you press it, only one letter gets deleted, but if you keep holding it, you will see the 2nd letter is deleted after roughly 1 second, then the 3rd letter follows and in 2 or 3 seconds the entire sentence (consisting of 20-30 letters) is deleted. this is the kind of acceleration we need here.
- I'm the traditional user with a mouse and keyboard. Maybe that's why we see things differently.
I usually open a lot of tabs which is hard to see the topic on the tab, so I always switch to a tab to see if I will close it and then I click the "x". Thus your "hold solution" may not work with this working style.
What I propose to the developer of edge is, close the tab via a single right-click, and put the original right-click function to "Shift+right click", if the original right-click on the tab is not used frequently.
I used to experience the function "right-click on a tab to close it" on some Chinese Chromium browsers. It is convenient and I rarely close the wrong tab. That experience make me feel like the solution to our topic, for traditional user. For touch device user, surely your idea is much better than mine.