On 10/05/2023 22:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/10/23 12:47, Tim via users wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 13:04 +0200, lejeczek via users wrote:
>> With f38 I think my Firefox is unable to detect or is
>> ignoring tabs
>> which are already opened in other windows with certain
>> URL, when I
>> open a new tab and want to go to a website/URL.
>> I think Firefox would then say, would offer something
>> like "switch
>> to tab".
>
> In the past I'd noticed a behaviour that if I opened a
> blank tab and
> typed in something like facebook, let auto-complete do
> its thing and
> picked something from the drop-down list that appeared
> below the
> address bar from its history, I'd often see the browser
> whiz over to an
> existing tab which already had that site loaded. It was
> that or a very
> similar kind of situation.
Look carefully at the item you're clicking. Watch for the
tag that says "Switch to Tab".
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Yes, that is exactly what we are saying, I was as the
originator of this thread.
I can only add - to what I said which was "this
functionality is completely gone" - that now after a longer
look I see "Swtich to Tab" for some site/urls, sometimes!
but not the others.
This would need to be thoroughly tested (probably something
only devel could do) to say, if there is pattern to it at
all or all this is purely random.
Eg. I've had a window with a few tabs - my Firefox is set to
restore last sessions - _none_ of those tabs (sites/urls
were fully loaded after restoration I made sure of) was
detected as "Switch to Tab"
I closed that window, opened a new one (made sure that no
other auto-started/restored window/tab had those sites in
question/example opened) and each site, one by one
loaded/opened, then tested in already existing window and
only ! then that window picked up, detected and offered
"Switch to Tab" to those sites.
So, purely from consumer perspective I can say this
"feature" is bit flaky.
many thanks, L.