450743 - Limit the number of Ctrl+Tab previews in MRU order, display the rest in tab bar order

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch

People can't remember the full chronology of their tabs, so the order seemingly becomes random at some point, where it makes sense to fall back to the tab bar order. Windows does something similar for Alt+Tab.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch v2

more optimized sorting

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Comment on attachment 334507 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2

In the upcoming ctrl-tab overhaul, I'm going to add support for browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedLimit=-1 as a means to disable the limit.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

pushed aeeef43eb774

I made the pref default to 7.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Verified with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080927020752 Minefield/3.1b1pre ID:20080927020752

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080927033433 Minefield/3.1b1pre ID:20080927033433

Marcia, do we already have a Litmus test therefor?

Comment 5

[Peter Lairo]

I still think any MRU scheme is going to be too confusing and disorienting (see bug 445499 Comment #53 for explanation). I hope this bug will be made INVALID (and the patch removed) and bug 445499 will be reopened and fixed.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445499#c53