No way to close tabs in the browser

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

It's easy enough to create tabs but we don't yet have a way to close tabs when we're done with them

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Technically, there is a way, although it’s well hidden, and not functioning as designed…

The initial design called for a vertical swipe up on an open page in the activity view to close it, but because of bug #1187476 in the UITK, list items can only be swiped left/right to be removed. After discussing the issue with the design team, we decided that implementing something similar to the running apps in the dash (long press to enter close mode) was desirable, so I’ll use this bug report to track the implementation.

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:webbrowser-app at revision 243, scheduled for release in webbrowser-app, milestone ubuntu-13.04-month-5

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:webbrowser-app at revision 245, scheduled for release in webbrowser-app, milestone ubuntu-13.04-month-5

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package webbrowser-app - 0.22+13.10.20130731.1-0ubuntu1

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webbrowser-app (0.22+13.10.20130731.1-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * debian/control: add missing Replaces and Conflicts fields to handle
    gracefully upgrades after packages were re-organized.

  [ Sergio Schvezov ]
  * Adding test xml output and coverage build targets.
  * Adding file filters for test coverage.

  [ Omer Akram ]
  * Autopilot tests: introduce a simpler logic to reveal the chrome.

  [ Olivier Tilloy ]
  * Cleaner separation between the public plugin and the application: -
    only expose QML files that should really be public in the plugin,
    move the others over to the application - ensure the plugin doesn’t
    contain any translatable string, and move translation catalogs to
    the application’s package.
  * Implement "close mode" for all open tabs, toggled by a long press on
    any open tab. (LP: #1197835)
  * Move an asset to where it belongs. (LP: #1197835)
  * Add instructions on how to generate code coverage reports.
  * Ensure the contentOrientation property of the window follows the
    screen’s orientation.
  * Ensure we’re accessing the correct data in a less aggressive, and
    crash-free way. (LP: #1204996)
  * Unskip an autopilot test now that the corresponding bug has been
    fixed in qtubuntu.

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * Missing Replaces in webbrowser-app for qtdeclarative5-ubuntu-ui-
    extras-browser-plugin, fixed the replaces for webbrowser-app-assets.

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 255
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:35:29 +0000