1198706 - Going back on a freshly opened view-source tab should close the tab and go back to the original page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][📱📆]]

Right now when you open a view source tab, you are presented with a new tab where you cannot go back. You can close the tab to go back to the original tab, but I think it would be a nice feature if going "back" would close the tab and go back to the original page.

This might be stretching the back/forwards navigation a bit, but I've intuitively tried clicking on back a number of times to get back to the original page.

Comment 1

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] from comment #0)
> Right now when you open a view source tab, you are presented with a new tab
> where you cannot go back. You can close the tab to go back to the original
> tab, but I think it would be a nice feature if going "back" would close the
> tab and go back to the original page.
> 
> This might be stretching the back/forwards navigation a bit, but I've
> intuitively tried clicking on back a number of times to get back to the
> original page.

It's an interesting idea but, as you say, it is stretching the navigation metaphor. We're opening a new tab and in every other case with new tabs, there is no browser history and the back button is deactivated. I think special-casing navigation here is just inconsistent with how browsers work.

( if other browsers did this I might feel more compelled, but they don't :)