Ctrl+Shift+Home/End should move current tab to the start/end without having to focus it
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: aria, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0
Steps to reproduce:
Trying to use “Move Tab in focus to start” and “Move Tab in focus to end” described in official Mozilla support.
Actual results:
Nothing happened. I guess they should have worked at some point since they are written in documentation so it’s probably a regression.
Expected results:
The shortcuts should do what the support website say they do, i.e. move the current tab to start or end.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
20191005100501
Please provide actual steps to reproduce the issue.
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines
Did you really focus the tab? The following works for me:
Ctrl+Lto focus the address bar.Shift+Tabmultiple times until the current tab is focused (the tab title gains a dotted rectangle border).Ctrl+Shift+Home|End|Page Up|Page Downto move said tab to the start of the tab strip, the end, to the left, then to the right.
OK sorry, I didn’t even read the explanation text above the shortcut because it seemed obvious (and to someone on Tab Center Redux too) that focused means “active, current”. So maybe the documentation should improved so that people don’t get the wrong idea about that shortcut.
Why is this shortcut restricted to focused tab when it could work like “Move Tab Left/Right” (since focusing it means to make it active anyway)? At least, it would be less confusing. But maybe it has a good reason?
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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(In reply to ariasuni from comment #2)
Why is this shortcut restricted to focused tab
I don't know. I'm changing this report into an enhancement request to remove the focus requirement from Move Tab to Start/End, since the same was done for Move Tab Left/Right in bug 364845.
So maybe the documentation should improved
I made an attempt. An editor needs to approve the changes before they show up in the article. If you have other suggestions for improvement, they're best posted on its discussion board. You can also always edit support articles yourself.
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Ctrl+Shift+Home/End are used for text selection so I don't think we can use it for moving tabs irrespective of focus.
Still, I think it’s very easy to overlook the explanation about «tab in focus», and it could probably be improved so users don’t get mistaken.
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