Open Bug 1224483 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Quick action to open new tab

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox for iOS
Component:
Browser
Platform:
Other
iOS
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: philippe.bernery, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.1 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1.46

Steps to reproduce:

This is an enhancement proposal. 
Currently, to open a new tab, one has to tap on the tab icon then the + icon. There are two annoying things here:

1. This is two steps to open a new tab,
2. By tapping the tab button, we enter the opened tabs overview and this is disturbing when the purpose of the action was to open a new tab. 

The UI misses a way to open a blank new tab quickly, from an existing tab. I thought of a double tap on the tab button which seems natural to me but I believe it may not for everyone. Any other suggestions?
Severity: normal → enhancement
For me, double tap is nice idea. It may improve user experience.
Such functionality can be done relatively easy using two tap gesture recognizers.
Bug 1231815 proposes a long press on the tabs button to quickly open a new tab. I like that idea. A long press is preferable to a double tap because that's how secondary actions are invoked in the toolbar.

In Safari, a long press on the tabs button brings up a choice between "New Tab" and "Close [All] Tabs". Simply opening a new tab right away would be an improvement over Safari.
Do we need to consider this functionality to be configured from FF Settings? E.g., by any chance, whether users might prefer to opt out of this UX?

Reverting spam.

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Flags: sec-bounty?
Severity: normal → S3
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