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Change the background color of a tab when it can be closed by Back

Added by Sam Jones over 1 year ago. Updated 8 months ago.

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New
Priority:
3.x
Start date:
11/05/2022
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On the android version ... is there a way to open a new tab AND NOT have the keyboard in my face ?

Many of us open tabs and use bookmarks for them.

That use case is already handled by long-pressing on a bookmark, which opens it in a new tab.

Perhaps it would be helpful if opening a bookmark in a new tab also switched to that tab. Do you think that would be a good idea?

I see how the long click works to open bookmark in new tab. Great.

But I also have a tendency to click the back arrow on tabs that are at the top of their history. This closes the tab completely.

Can the back arrow work as normal to climb the history back to the top, and if one is already at the top on that tab, change the focus to the previous or tab to the left and not closed the current tab.

Quote #7
Updated by Soren Stoutner 2 days ago
Using the system back command to close tabs is one of my favorite parts of Privacy Browser and one of what I consider to be the best parts of its user interface. As such, I am unlikely to change that behavior.

Quote #8
Updated by Sam Jones 1 day ago
I guess my crutch is that I spend more time with Private Browser on an older small moto-e phone with and earlier version with no tabs, just single page (2.8.1). Limited memory and screen space there so I am fine with that version there. And on that I constantly go to bookmarks and 'back click' return to the original home page therein.

For me if I want to close a page you have the 'X' on the left to use.

It would be nice to have a choice as to your 'close' choice or my suggestion to go to previous tab if history is at top level.

Thanks for listening, you do great work.


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Ghosted Back Entry.png (119 KB) Ghosted Back Entry.png Soren Stoutner, 11/16/2022 11:07 AM
history-back-remains-indicator.png (136 KB) history-back-remains-indicator.png v ..., 08/13/2023 12:26 PM
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