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My workflow is often to open links in a new tab via a "middle click". I will then switch to the tab (usually manually), and have a look at it. If it is not what I was hoping for, often I will gesture "back" out of habit, but this will not do anything, since I opened the link in a new tab.

Posing as an idea - should the "back" gesture on a newly opened tab (i.e. currently visible tab is the oldest in the history stack) close the tab? This could create a risk of an unintuitive scenario where gesturing "forward" won't restore that, since it would be the "forward" gesture on the previously opened tab, which might be "nothing", or could be another tab.

On the other hand, in defence of the idea, I imagine a lot of people will open a series of new tabs, then go through them triaging them for relevance, closing the irrelevant ones. Gesturing "back" on them would seem to be intuitive, and this is likely the expected outcome for the user, if they swipe back on it - if they and just opened it regularly, back would take them back to the previous page, so this should adhere to "principle of least astonishment".

  • Vlad replied to this.
    4 days later

    gp Feels that if anything, a "Back" gesture on a newly open tab should jump to the parent tab? This behavior is typical on mobile. What do you think?

    Also have you looked into Vivaldi's mouse gestures? (it is often regarded the king of mouse gestures)

    https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/shortcuts/mouse-gestures/

    • gp replied to this.

        Vlad

        "Back" on a newly opened tab jumping to parent tab feels like the correct behaviour, and what I was failing to properly describe 🙂 I'd second this - it seems like the intuitive thing to do.

        I haven't looked into Vivaldi's gestures, but will take a look at them.

            Vlad changed the title to "Back" gesture on a new tab should jump to the parent tab (like on mobile) .
              3 months later

              Upvoted. This is not only on mobile, but on macOS Safari as well. It would give Orion feature parity.

              • Vlad replied to this.

                hsu I do not think you can gesture back on a newly opened tab in desktop safari?

                • hsu replied to this.
                    a month later
                    a year later

                    Done (swiping back using trackpad closes tab and returns to parent tab)

                    • gp replied to this.

                      gp Can you confirm this for closing

                          TheOtherKai

                          Cannot reproduce the behaviour you describe - not sure if it could be down to settings, but I had a play with the obvious ones and I cannot swipe "back" in a newly opened tab to get it to return to the parent tab. The "back" button is greyed out, and the gesture doesn't work.

                          @Vlad not quite yet 🙂 Let's see if we can get to the bottom of this, as I am seeing different behaviour from @TheOtherKai it would appear.

                              Steps to reproduce:

                              1. Open a link in a new tab (e.g. by ⌘-clicking it).
                              2. If "make new tabs active" is not enabled, switch to the new tab.
                              3. Invoke the back function on the trackpad, or by typing the shortcut ⌘-[ (the back arrow in the toolbar will be disabled in this situation).

                              Actual result:
                              Nothing happens.

                              Expected result:
                              The newly created tab should be closed, and the tab where the link was clicked should become the active one again.

                              Notes:

                              • To be consistent, the back arrow in the toolbar should also be enabled (and also close the tab) in this situation.
                              • This should likewise work for links opened in new windows.
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                                Merged 2 posts from Back on tab newly created by clicking link should close tab.
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                                  12 days later

                                  leftium This is already done on Desktop and behaves same like Safari. Can you please check and confirm what additional you are expecting here?

                                      7 days later

                                      I just tested with 0.99.126.4.1-beta and 0.99.126.4.1.8-rc

                                      If the link is opened with command+click, back button is disabled and I can't use any of the back features to close the tab and move to parent.

                                      If clicking a link opens a new tab on it's on (i.e. Kagi search result) then the back button is enabled and going back closes the tab.

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