How Firefox Loses When it Tries to Copy Chrome - eviltoast
Prologue

You might not know it, but Firefox was once widely considered to be an innovative browser. It wasn’t just an alternative to Internet Explorer (and now Chrome). Firefox introduced honest-to-goodness new features that people loved and rely on to this day.

  • yoasif@fedia.ioOPM
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    1 year ago

    Update to the bug I filed that was introduced in Firefox 116 - apparently, it isn’t a bug:

    I don’t think this is a bug, its a side effect of the behavior for the ctrl|cmd + shift + T shortcut changing in 116 to reopen the last closed tab or window, in the order closed.

    Technically, you closed a window when you dragged the tab out to a window, and then back to the original window. The exact same behavior happens if you use repeat those steps and use the ctrl|cmd + shift + N shortcut to reopen the last closed window.

    There’s an open needinfo for the author of the regressor, so I don’t have much of a comment, but… it is very clearly a bug and very clearly a regression - Chrome doesn’t do this (and actually has the newly claimed Firefox behavior) – and neither did Firefox before it regressed.