API feature request: Allow extensions to detect double click on tab
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dmitriy....@gmail.com,
Jan 18
(5 days ago)
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3674.0 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: What is the expected behavior? What went wrong? Add ability to detect double click on tab to extensions API, please. This ability will allow user to launch any kind of action on user selected tab or tabs, and the great thing is that he will be able to very quickly select tabs he needs by double clicking on them. For example, there was Tab Mix Plus add-on in old Firefox, which allowed unprecedented convenience in operations with tabs, partly due to its ability to detect various clicks on tabs – see screenshot. I, personally, want double click on tab to close all tabs to the right. There is an extension that can do that by pressing extension’s button, and there is a standard menu item to do that, but the fastest possible way is by double clicking on tab I need (without the need to move mouse to menu item or to extension’s button). Another example is to scroll to top by double clicking on tab (somewhat similar to browsers in phones). Yet another example is Google’s own Chrome Toolbox https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-toolbox-by-google/fjccknnhdnkbanjilpjddjhmkghmachn?hl=en which allowed closing tabs by double click. WebStore page: Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 73.0.3674.0 Channel: canary OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version:
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Jan 18
(4 days ago)
Thanks for filing the issue! From comment#0, it is clear that the issue seems to be a Feature request. Hence marking it as Untriaged and requesting someone from respective team to have a look into this for further inputs.
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Jan 18
(4 days ago)
I don't think this is something we'll add support for. While I can certainly see the use cases, it's unfortunately not something we'll have the bandwidth to implement, or the long-term desire to support. Extensions have a number of other options available for interaction, including the extension action that was mentioned in #0. To avoid the need to click on the extension icon, you can also assign keyboard shortcuts (from chrome://extensions/shortcuts) to execute extension actions. |
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Comment 1 by viswa.karala@chromium.org
, Jan 18 (5 days ago)