Closing the only tab on iPadOS with external keyboard opens two tabs

Ssirn · Feb 3, 2023

Steps to reproduce:

Open Orion on iPadOS with external keyboard.
Make sure only one tab is present (e.g., tab bar is not shown), can be either a web page or the Orion Start Page.
Press Cmd+W.
Orion is now showing two empty tabs (three if "New Tabs Open With" is set to "Home Page").

Expected behavior:
Orion does not open the extra tab

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Orion iOS 1.2.4 (2) (WebKit 8614.4.6.0.5)
iPadOS 16.3 (20D47)
iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) / M1

Image/Video:

(A bit hard to tell in the video, but I was basically spamming Cmd+W here)

alicerunsonfedora · Feb 3, 2023

I wonder if the problem here shares a similar root to some of the inconsistencies/problems I’ve encountered and reported about tab management in the iPadOS version of Orion as well: https://orionfeedback.org/d/4175-tabs-act-inconsistently-on-ipad/

Ssirn · Feb 7, 2023

alicerunsonfedora I've found that once tabs are in this "double open" state sometimes it result in other strange tabs behavior, e.g., opening a link open extra tabs that were previously closed or duplicated content, or reloading a page resulting in a new page.

The only way to get out of this state is to close all tabs (using touch), kill the app, and reopen. I didn't include these details in the report since it's a bit trickier to reproduce. I've found the only way to use Orion on iPadOS in current form is to not use it with external keyboard at all.

alicerunsonfedora · Feb 8, 2023

sirn Yeah, that actually does sound pretty similar to the issues I’ve encountered. I’d like to think they’re related in some way.