Google Chrome has a feature to open a new tab with the currently loaded URL when you middle click on the Refresh button. Though I understand we can assign a keyboard shortcut to the Window > "Duplicate Tab" menu item, I've grown very fond of this function in Chrome, and would love to see it available in Orion.
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Middle click on Reload button to duplicate tab
Vlad added the Clarification tag .
Respectfully, I don’t have a solid answer to that question. How do users know that middle clicking on a link will open it in a new tab? That middle clicking a tab will close that tab?
And unlike in Safari, that right clicking the “Back” and “Forward” buttons will show the site history instead of showing “Customize Toolbar” option (thank you for implementing this, btw!). And when opening this list that middle clicking will open that specific site in a new tab?
Personally, I think it naturally flows with the perceived behavior of the middle click. Left clicking a link on the current page, a bookmark, or a link in the navigation history triggers an immediate change to the current active tab. A middle click on any of the above will open a new tab to the requested destination. In the case of the Reload button, left clicking it also triggers an immediate change in the current active tab, therefore I think it natural that a middle click would also follow the behavior as stated above - open a new tab to the requested destination, the same URL.
I hope this makes sense. Either way, I love what your team is doing! Keep up the great work!
Just to add on, this behaviour is also present in Firefox.
I agree that it's a bit difficult to display this behaviour to users, but it also follows the same behaviour of middle clicking any other button in the tool bar, so I think any user that already uses their middle click button a lot, would inherently assume the same thing would follow with the reload button.
Useful feature, but I’d still rather have option+drag to duplicate tab (Firefox behavior—& maybe chromium) as most of the time I use a Mac I don’t have a middle-click functionality anyway (both is preferable of course, à la Firefox)
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njohnathan This is what makes our job very difficult. People come from three different browsers and expect all things that worked there to work in Orion 
In the meantime those browsers have 200 person teams and implement just one function, we are expected to implement 3x functionality with basically only a 2 person team
Not a complaint, just an observation, I think people do not realize with what sort of limited resources we are working with and how important prioritization is.
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Vlad absolutely, I understand it is a huge amount of small things everyone wants, but that is why I support the projects and keep commenting. Amazing work you and the team do. I prefer commenting more than less because it breeds discussion and ideas I think. I completely understand that not everything can be done with the resources that exist
Hell… Chrome has 100+ people teams and can’t even properly make their browser work with VPN, at least Kagi team responds to support inquiries and actively makes real updates with useful features on a regular basis to their softwares
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Hi, I wanted to say thank you, for implementing this feature - It's so important to me, I use it a couple times a week and do not have it in Safari
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