Re: Firefox - detection of exiting tabs with URLs

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On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 09:54 +0200, lejeczek via users wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/05/2023 22:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 5/10/23 12:47, Tim via users wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2023-05-10 at 13:04 +0200, lejeczek via users wrote:
> > > > With f38 I think my Firefox is unable to detect or is 
> > > > ignoring tabs
> > > > which are already opened in other windows with certain 
> > > > URL, when I
> > > > open a new tab and want to go to a website/URL.
> > > >   I think Firefox would then say, would offer something 
> > > > like "switch
> > > > to tab".
> > > 
> > > In the past I'd noticed a behaviour that if I opened a 
> > > blank tab and
> > > typed in something like facebook, let auto-complete do 
> > > its thing and
> > > picked something from the drop-down list that appeared 
> > > below the
> > > address bar from its history, I'd often see the browser 
> > > whiz over to an
> > > existing tab which already had that site loaded.  It was 
> > > that or a very
> > > similar kind of situation.
> > 
> > Look carefully at the item you're clicking.  Watch for the 
> > tag that says "Switch to Tab".
> > _______________________________________________
> > 
> Yes, that is exactly what we are saying, I was as the 
> originator of this thread.
> I can only add - to what I said which was "this 
> functionality is completely gone" - that now after a longer 
> look I see "Swtich to Tab" for some site/urls, sometimes! 
> but not the others.
> This would need to be thoroughly tested (probably something 
> only devel could do) to say, if there is pattern to it at 
> all or all this is purely random.
> Eg. I've had a window with a few tabs - my Firefox is set to 
> restore last sessions - _none_ of those tabs (sites/urls 
> were fully loaded after restoration I made sure of) was 
> detected as "Switch to Tab"
> I closed that window, opened a new one (made sure that no 
> other auto-started/restored window/tab had those sites in 
> question/example opened) and each site, one by one 
> loaded/opened, then tested in already existing window and 
> only ! then that window picked up, detected and offered 
> "Switch to Tab" to those sites.
> So, purely from consumer perspective I can say this 
> "feature" is bit flaky.

Looks like you should report this upstream. I doubt it's a Fedora bug.

poc
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