Open Bug 1916316 Opened 9 months ago Updated 9 days ago

Tab previews are turned off but still appear when trying to close tabs in a full-screen Firefox window.

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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)

Firefox 129
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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: steele.tom, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Steps to reproduce:

I turned off "Show an image preview when you hover over a tab." Then I maximized Firefox to full screen and attempted to close a tab.

Actual results:

Clicking on the close tab switched to that tab and briefly flashed a preview of the tab.

Expected results:

The tab should have closed.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Tabbed Browser' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser

This appears to be an issue with the drag & drop preview, not tab preview. Moving to Core:Drag&Drop

Component: Tabbed Browser → DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop
Product: Firefox → Core

I see that if I try to drag the tab from the left border of the close button it starts a dnd session, I wonder if this is a case where you inadvertently moved the mouse between mousedown and mouseup, causing a drag to start.
Probably the whole hover area of the close button should not cause a drag.

I can confirm that I am not dragging the tab; this happens simply when I click anywhere on it.

DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop is not correct for this bug. Moving back to Firefox/Tabbed Browser.

Component: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop → Tabbed Browser
Product: Core → Firefox
Severity: -- → S4
Priority: -- → P3

I couldn't reproduce the issue in the latest Firefox 133.0 and Nightly 135.0a1 versions on macOS 13. I followed the steps you provided, disabling the Show an image preview when you hover over a tab setting, entering full screen, and attempting to close a tab. However, it did not show a preview before closing the tab.
@steele.tom, are you still experiencing this issue on your side? If so, could you please let me know if you are able to reproduce it in a new profile?

Flags: needinfo?(steele.tom)

clearing this request. the bug still happens occasionally, but i can't reliably reproduce it

Flags: needinfo?(steele.tom)

I’ve tried again to reproduce the issue in the latest Firefox 138.0.1 on macOS 15, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to reproduce it. Since this issue seems to be intermittent, as mentioned in Comment 7, it’s very difficult for us to reproduce it reliably. I’m marking this as qa-not-actionable for now. Please keep us posted if you notice the issue occurring more frequently. Thank you.

QA Whiteboard: [qa-not-actionable]
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