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(Reporter: mprops, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0
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I think there's a problem with modern browsers that hasn't been solved yet. I'm talking about the simple act of going to the last, or second last, or third last tab you visited some moments/minutes ago. You have a tab bar, you have pins, but they give no indication of where you were recently, you have to scan for the proper icon/title using your memory. Especially true with many pins. What I currently do is scan the pins bar to locate the one I'm looking for, based on its favicon, instead of just going there without much thought.
There should be a mindless way to summon a list with the last 10 or so tabs/websites you were using to return to them. Open or closed tabs. With a favicon and title, sorted by last visit date. This would be a quicker specialized widget counterpart to the History sidebar, that is meant to be used regularly.
If such widget exists, it would make browser navigation a lot easier. AFAIK no browser right now makes use of something like this, leaving users limited to guess and click, which is not a big deal if you have 3-4 tabs open, but some users will have much more tabs+pins open at the same time.
I think the positioning of this widget is key. Think for instance of GNOME's Activities button placed in the top left corner. Users quickly got used to trigger the overview by mindlessly clicking that corner. This kind of intuitive activation could be replicated by giving the widget a good default location, like a corner.
Thanks for reading.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
Also I would like to add that it should highlight/take-into-account tabs that are emitting sound. So you know which was the tab you were watching/hearing. This could be done with a speaker icon, or by pinning the tab(s) to the top no matter the visit-date (also with the speaker icon), and maybe some horizontal line to separate it from the others
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Updated•4 years ago
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Hi mprops,
This could be a good enhancement, hopefully it will be taken into consideration in the future.
I'll mark this as New for visibility.
Regards,
Jerónimo.
Just wanted to say that I built what I wanted myself using the webextension api (an addon)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-urls/
I'm already using it exclusively for tab management. Removed the tab bar through css.
Put the icon in the top left corner for easy activation with the mouse.
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