1906411 - Specifying `index` doesn't change the actual tab position in tab switcher UI

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: WebExtensions, enhancement, P3)

Description

[tophf]

Attachment: test-ext.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. install the attached extension
2. open the menu -> addons -> test
3. open the tab list

Actual results:

example.com is the last tab

Expected results:

example.com is the first tab

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:zmckenney, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[William Durand [:willdurand]]

The way tabs works on Android is a bit convoluted at the moment and so this is unfortunately expected (even if the behavior is not quite correct). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1812854#c1