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Dev Update to 76.0.159.0 is live
Please add this feature:
1. Open a link in a new tab on website A;
2. Use gesture of “go back to previous page" in the new opened tab;
3. The new opened tab shall be closed and back to website A.
ShieldAgent wrote:
Please add this feature:
1. Open a link in a new tab on website A;
2. Use gesture of “go back to previous page" in the new opened tab;
3. The new opened tab shall be closed and back to website A.
Ooh, I like that feature. It's how Safari behaves on macOS. Whether the browser opens a new tab or I manually open a link in a new tab, as long as I haven't navigated further in that new tab, I can swipe back and Safari will close the tab and take me to the tab that generated it.
- I installed. But don't know how to do so to make it like Safari or how I said above.
- It seems ludicrous that stuff has to be added all the time from that Google store to try to have this back to what we like and is familiar.
Cheers,
Drew"It seems ludicrous that stuff (like Tabs Control) has to be added from Google store to try to have this back to what we like and is familiar."
Lets uncover what happens behind the scene. You remember, its Chromium behind the curtain, not EdgeHTML and other MS stuff? So Edge devs to bring the Tabs Control back (whatever scarce it was) now have to deal with https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tabs API with only goForward and goBack methods they have to master.
They need to add some functions and relevant checkboxes to Settings so you can alter default Chrome Tabs behavior as you like. Despite the API may have serious limitations for the task, you don't want to know it, all you want is getting Edge Tabs Control back. But can it happen like that in real life? In fact I wonder, if Edge devs contribute to Chromium APIs while developing Edge Preview features?
That's why its a lot simpler to use existing extensions, each of those been result of countless hours spent by their authors, some polished for years.
