603968 - three finger swipe up should enter the tab currently hovered over

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect, P4)

Description

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The new swiping gestures are great for quickly navigating through tab groups, but I find it a bit unintuitive that if I swipe down to get into the tabview, hover over a different tab, and then wipe up, that it goes back to my original tab.

Comment 1

[Lorenzo]

I don't like the new swiping features at all. I have jitouch set-up just the way I like it (three finger swipe up/down for Scroll to top/bottom) and Firefox is messing with that..

Comment 2

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Agreed. Swiping up should go to the tab the mouse is over, if the mouse is moved in the Panorama mode. Else, if the mouse hasn't moved, it should go back to the last-viewed tab.

Comment 3

[Lorenzo]

Please make the new gestures a preference, as some people prefer having control over their gesture setup.

Comment 4

[Kevin Hanes]

Punting

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Panorama has been removed from Firefox 45, currently in Beta and scheduled for release on March 7th. As such, I'm closing all existing Panorama bugs.

If you are still using Panorama, you will see a deprecation message in Firefox 44, and when 45 is released your tab group data will be migrated to bookmarks, with a folder for each group. There are also a few addons offering similar functionality.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal for more info.

We're removing Panorama because it has extremely low usage (about 0.01% of users), and has a large number of bugs and usability issues. The cost of fixing all those issues is far too high to justify, and so we'll instead be focusing our time and energy on improving other parts of Firefox.