> Surely we can investigate more changes, when they make sense. The case from comment 9 (empty new tab) is interesting and may be another case where we would like to ignore the current container. Maybe by fixing the most common cases and by providing an escape path (#) we could avoid the option toggle?
I feel like a simpler solution exists: the original bug was clearly about "escaping a container", where the user explicitly opened a container tab and then got redirected to the open tab in the default container. It is indeed clear to me that that probably shouldn't happen (and making an exception for new tabs wouldn't solve this issue), but the differentiating point there is (imo) being in a container vs not being in a container (the default one).
Firefox could suggest switching to any tab in any container when the user isn't specifically operating in a containerized tab, and only show tabs from the current container when they are. As a side note, it would also be massively useful to indicate which container a suggested tab in the location bar is in.
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> Surely we can investigate more changes, when they make sense. The case from comment 9 (empty new tab) is interesting and may be another case where we would like to ignore the current container. Maybe by fixing the most common cases and by providing an escape path (#) we could avoid the option toggle?
I feel like a simpler solution exists: the original bug was clearly about "escaping a container", where the user explicitly opened a container tab and then got redirected to the open tab in the default container. It is indeed clear to me that that probably shouldn't happen (and making an exception for new tabs wouldn't solve this issue), but the differentiating point there is (imo) being in a container vs not being in a container (the default one).
Firefox could suggest switching to any tab in any container when the user isn't specifically operating in a containerized tab, and only show tabs from the current container when they are. As a side note, it would also be massively useful to indicate which container a suggested tab in the location bar is in.
Edit: Somebody pointed out to me that it wasn't clear that I am only talking about the awesome bar deciding for itself to suggest to switch tabs. If the user explicitly types a %, I believe all tabs should be shown, regardless of the current container.