Switch Tabs via Swiping Address Bar

[vrudesai]

Why/User Benefit/User Problem

As a user I want to be able to quickly switch back and forth between tabs by swiping right and left on the address bar.

For left-to-right languages the oldest tab is on the left and a left swiping brings you to your most recent tabs.

For right-to-left languages the oldest tab is on the right and right swiping brings you to your most recent tabs.

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[Neikon]

Gives us this feature pls pls pls

[ghost]

I'd like to work on it

[KazaHesto]

This should be tested with Android Q to see how it interacts with the new navigation gestures.

[kbrosnan]

Dupe of #1283 / #176

[ChristianCiach]

@kbrosnan
It may be a dupe, but please compare the upvotes of this issue to the issues this is a dupe of. The discoverability of this issue is way higher, so please don't ignore this issue when assessing the importance of this feature.

[vesta0]

@mozilla-mobile/ux please consider this for the tab management re-design

[lime124]

removing the ux label - this is on our radar already as it's part of Q3 plans.

[andreicristianpetcu]

@SheepyCoder where did you get the build from?

[ghost]

@andreicristianpetcu This feature is available on latest nightly.

[Scripterr]

Hi @andreicristianpetcu you can get the nightly directly from taskcluster they are here https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/tasks/index/mobile.v2.fenix.nightly.latest . So you can grab them before they hit play store.

[andreicristianpetcu]

Thank you! I was getting it from here https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/tasks/index/project.mobile.fenix.v2.fennec-nightly/latest

[person808]

@SheepyCoder If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying the way we order tabs is unintuitive? But its not a bug in the gesture itself where the tab order in the gesture isn't matching the order in the tab tray (topmost tab in tab tray = right most tab in the gesture, swiping left-to-right navigates "downward" in the tab tray). Just want to make sure there's not a bug where the tab order in the tab tray and in the gesture get out of sync.

[ghost]

@person808 Yeah, there is no bug in the gesture.

[anotherus3r]

Gesture works fine for me, although I sometimes trigger the system gesture for quickly switching apps. I probably just need to get used to it, i.e. to swipe a bit higher on the address bar. Regarding the tab order, I like the suggestions in #11376.

[Neikon]

it works well for me. I was hoping it was the most left tab = top tab, too. I think it's more intuitive (most left tab= top tab) and Chrome does it like this. Maybe, it would be easier for new users if we order it the same way

[ghost]

@Neikon yeah, that is a bug with how the tabs are displayed in the tabs tray. That will be fixed some day, though AFAIK they are low priority as of now.

[Scripterr]

@person808 there is a bug when you open a website(tab A) and scroll down the page and then swipe to another tab(tab B) and swipe again to the previous tab(tab A) you will see older tab preview/thumbnail when it was opened.

[person808]

@Neikon @Scripterr Could you open new issues for your comments? I don't want feedback to get lost in here. Feel free to tag me in the new issue :)

Edit: this applies to any bugs/feedback anyone has

[andreicristianpetcu]

found a bug #12945

[sv-ohorvath]

Verified as fixed on Nightly, 7/27.
Devices:
Pixel 3, Android 11 emulator.
Pixel 4, Android 10
Htc Desire 820, Android 6.0.1
Nexus 9, Android 7.1.1

Known issue left: #12865

[andreicristianpetcu]

Found another bug on this #13127

[katzelad]

This issue is listed in the beta 80.0.0 release notes but the gesture is disabled in the release.