Tonite, I was fiddling with the UI around the new tabbing scheme in IE7 by virtue of which you can have tabbed browsing in one IE window. Good so far (not great though). I started right clicking on the tab area and was actually looking for the tab context menu (Cloe/Close Other Tabs)…but then I stumbled upon this scenario:
This actually is the window context menu that appears when you right click (or even click) on the top left corner in the title bar of most of the windows. But as evident in the above screenshot, this also comes up when you click on the rectangle just below the title bar and above the tabs. This is the rectangle which holds the Back/Forward buttons, adress bar, refresh button etc. If you do a right click even in this area, you will get this context menu.
Now I might be missing the feature list, but is this by design? If yes, whats the value, as its not coming from a obvious location in the window. IF not, is this a documented bug? I know you guys from Microsoft are reading this, but would be good if we can hear something from someone in the comments.
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Black suit people from Redmond here,
Okay we do break rules, but we got a reason, IE was never designed for tabbed browsing, it was jst added to save some attack from FF, if FF removes tabs from there browser, we will do so too.
nice find!
Yes, it’s a bug. We shouldn’t show the window context menu in that case. We’ll fix it before release.
From your description, seems like the wrong context menu appears, in IE 6.0 the toolbar context menun appears in a right click in that area.
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