Closed
Bug 269841
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Also make 'previous' history of originating tab available in tabs spawning from this tab
Categories
(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P5)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 566514
Future
People
(Reporter: Thomas_Delrue, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 When browsing, you build up a crumb-path of pages in the 'previous' button. However, when you ctrl+click on a link, the new link does open in a new tab, but the items in the 'previous'-section of the originating page are not taken allong with the new tab. Personally, I feel it would be very nive to have the pages that belong to the previous-section of the originating tab are also available in tabs that spawn from this originating page so that - when you have closed the originating tab - you can still navigate to the page you were looking at in the originating tab before the page on which you ctrl+clicked to open a new tab Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: see details... See details...
Comment 1•20 years ago
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I don't think that's a good idea. Normally before closing a tab I'll look up to the back button. If it's disabled I know I've either Ctrl-clicked the link or started on this page -- in either case, I know this page was the 'focus' of my browsing, and I didn't find it by meandering off the point by clicking some link on the original page. Having the back button constantly active means I would have to keep checking it for pages that I hadn't finished reading. You can track backwards by using a bookmarklet to go to the referrer page <http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/08/go_to_referrer.html>
Comment 2•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #1) > I don't think that's a good idea. Normally before closing a tab I'll look up to > the back button. If it's disabled I know I've either Ctrl-clicked the link or > started on this page -- in either case, I know this page was the 'focus' of my > browsing, and I didn't find it by meandering off the point by clicking some link > on the original page. Having the back button constantly active means I would > have to keep checking it for pages that I hadn't finished reading. > > You can track backwards by using a bookmarklet to go to the referrer page > <http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/08/go_to_referrer.html> This would be great, if the bookmarklet allowed you to walk back through the history of referrers, or even worked for all pages. But it doesn't. A nice way of implementing this in the browser might be to subtly change the Back button when you are on the first page viewed in a new tab. This would signal to the user that he is about to cross the line into a history which originated in another tab. This would require marking the new-tab points in the history list, and showing those points by changing the Back/Forward buttons appropriately. They could also be marked by a line in the history drop-down list.
Comment 3•19 years ago
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Personally, I agree with comment 1: I don't think this is a good idea (I do the same thing). However, I will confirm this bug and let the devs decide.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Updated•19 years ago
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Flags: blocking-aviary2.0?
Comment 4•19 years ago
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Came up with the following proto-solution. In cases where there is a clear originating tab, we'll preserve session history within the constraints of the single domain of the originating tab. More than that probably isn't useful, but this could be depending on the use model.
Assignee: bugs → mconnor
Flags: blocking-aviary2? → blocking-aviary2+
Updated•18 years ago
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Priority: -- → P5
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 2 alpha2
Updated•18 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment 5•18 years ago
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This doesn't seem as important to focus on right now.
Assignee: mconnor → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Flags: blocking-firefox2+ → blocking-firefox2-
Updated•15 years ago
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Target Milestone: Firefox 2 alpha2 → Future
Comment 6•14 years ago
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I realize this is a very old issue, but I find this to be a very important missing feature in Firefox. There is an old extension that adds this functionality: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1859/ I would still like this feature to be available in Firefox without requiring any add-ons.
Updated•11 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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