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Discussion: Add ability to close tabs via double-click
Double clicking the icon to closed the tab, without further tab unfolding animation be performed may be a great solution for me.
I hope this is a meaningful scenario for this feature. thx
- GraniteStateColinSep 15, 2021Iron Contributor
For me, the problem with double-click to close a tab is that it's inconsistent and therefore bad UI. Double-click, virtually everywhere else, performs the "Default" action you could select from the actions/verbs you get when you right-click on an object. Closing is NEVER the default action. Therefore, even if it did save some small number of people time, it's bad, confusing, and inconsistent UI. This is one case where it shouldn't even be available as an option. If there's a third-party extension that provides this capability, then that's great, because if you choose to modify the browser behavior, that's up to you, but it should NOT come from MS as an Edge setting. (Like the terrible broken of Ctrl-F to Forward instead of Find in Outlook, like it does in all other Office applications, supposedly because this was important to Bill Gates 25+ years ago).
This would damage the entire Windows UI and UX, where consistency should always be the prime directive to UI design. An inconsistency in one place is effectively an inconsistency everyplace.- pp_e2Sep 15, 2021Iron ContributorMy Like for common sense and logic. Up to now I was nearly seriously convinced that such guys like You belong to extinct species. You've brought me a hope. 😉
- VijayMGiriAug 11, 2021Copper ContributorThis. Also for the animation to unfold we have to hover on the sidebar and when the sidebar unfolds then we have to travel to the 'x' button of the tab. In the current state, closing vertical tab with mouse/trackpad is a pain.
- Knew_itSep 20, 2021Brass Contributorwhy not use keyboard shortcut then? ("Cntrl"+"W")
- eguifJul 17, 2021Iron ContributorWhile the team does not return any feedback to us
You can try closing tab using mouse scroll button
Place the mouse arrow over a tab and then press the mouse scroll and it will close without you having to wait for the animation
Hope it's a good shortcut for everyone