1959099 - Closing tabs by swipe is tricky

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Tabs, defect)

Description

[Mira Lobontiu (Android QA)]

Attachment: screen-20250408-150650.mp4

Steps to reproduce

1. Open multiple tabs.
2. Make sure the tabs tray view is grid.
3. Try closing them by swiping from the tabs tray.

Expected behavior

The tabs are closed successfully by a simple swipe.

Actual behavior

The swipe gesture must be done several times in order for the tab to close - please see the short video attached.

Device information

• Firefox version: 137.0, Beta 138.0b4, Nightly 139.0a1
• Android device: Vivo V23 (Android 14)

Any additional information?

• from here

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This bug is probably a regression from bug 1904906's fix in 136 to make tabs harder to close accidentally.

Comment 2

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

:007, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1904906, could you take a look?

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Comment 3

[Noah Bond [:007]]

Adding this to my squad's backlog to see how we can make the gesture code better