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Discussion: Add ability to close tabs via double-click
Hey Insiders, thanks for your continued feedback to help us improve Microsoft Edge! Recently we have noticed a growing trend in requests to support double clicking on a tab to close it. Even just rec...
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liftcube wrote:
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.
I'm mainly a kb/m user too. but that doesn't mean I don't use touch-based device.
if you have a lot of tabs and you have problem with seeing their titles, then you need to use Vertical tabs, that's one of their main purposes.
I use right-click frequently on tabs.
the method I suggested, with acceleration, solves your problem, when you use vertical tabs.
