New tabs opening persistently in the wrong window

jducoeur

(I do not have a reproducible recipe for this one -- it was happening to me 100% consistently, then I restarted and the problem went away. But for the record🙂

I run Orion pretty hard: I have probably a hundred+ open tabs, scattered across four full-screen windows on two monitors. Each window has a distinct purpose. One of them is my "everyday" window, where I keep Gmail as a pinned tab. (One is a named "Reading" window, which doesn't seem to be involved, but I note that this problem was specifically happened between two of the unnamed physical windows, which might be relevant.)

Yesterday, I updated to 0.99.133-beta. After doing so, I found that clicking on links in Gmail didn't seem to open a new tab. After worrying about this for a couple of minutes, I remembered that I'd seen similar behavior before, a few months ago. So I went hunting around, and found that those links were opening in my "work" window, instead of in the "everyday" window where I was clicking on the links.

This behavior persisted, and was completely consistent: I would click on a link in an email in the pinned Gmail tab in the "everyday" window, and the new tab would open (always in the same place in the tab order) in the "work" window.

I experimentally restarted Orion completely, and the problem vanished, and hasn't recurred since.

I expect new tabs to always open in the same window as their source links.

Version 0.99.133-beta (WebKit 621.1.2.111.4)

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Yannick

Thank you for the information. Since it's indeed something difficult to reproduce, feel free to reach out with more details if it happens again. Thanks a lot!

jducoeur

Yannick Still don't have any clue about recipe, but it just happened to me again, on a different laptop, so it's pretty clearly not a one-off fluke.

The other laptop's environment isn't nearly as extreme -- only one monitor with two full-screen Orion windows, and only about 20 tabs between them -- but I wound up with exactly the same bad behavior, that clicking on links in my pinned Gmail tab in one window was causing the resulting tab to open in the other window.

mumu

I frequently encounter the same thing, for me it seems to coincide with a window getting "stuck". Right now for example one of my windows is showing one of its tabs. I can click on tabs I haven't already clicked on, and the view will switch to it, but I can't click back on any tabs I've already viewed since the issue started. If I create a new tab from that window, it opens in another window.

I can leave these in this state for now, so if there's anything in particular you want me to do to get details, let me know.

I semi-reliably have this happen but I haven't noticed any particularly reliable steps to get here, other than having a lot of tabs and windows open. I'm on 0.99.129-beta.