1719820 - switching between multiple windows in Firefox for Mac OS doesn't work quite right

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[ludovic.tolhurst.cleaver]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

I am using Firefox 89.0.2 on Mac OS 'Big Sur' 11.4 running on a 2019 MacBook Pro.

Firefox had been restarted the previous day and then left open while I put my Mac to sleep overnight. I often leave Firefox open for several days at a time (or weeks).

After reawakening my Mac at the start of the day, I went to switch between the four Firefox windows I have open using Cmd + `.

However, it just switched between the current and last windows.

I tried holding it down and it just switched between those two windows dozens of times, continuing a second or two after I released the keys.

Workaround:
Clicking on the 'Window' menu with my mouse and selecting one of the other windows cured this bug, at least temporarily (it has happened before). Since doing this, Cmd + ` happily switches through all four windows as expected.

Actual results:

Firefox just toggled between displaying the current and last opened window.

Expected results:

Firefox should have switched between all four open windows in turn.

Comment 1

[ludovic.tolhurst.cleaver]

Right. Here's what happened: Cmd + ` only switches between non-mimized windows.

Selecting a minimized window from the Window menu, of course, pops it back up.

To be fair, this could be made clear in the documentation.