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> Yet, almost no software provide a toggle to customize this (Firefox does, but it has an even weirder quirk). What is the quirk? I enable the "recently used o

• thrdbndndn 2y ago
  It automatically enables the preview feature, which I absolutely don't want (less about the preview itself, more about the fact when the preview is enabled, the tabs won't actually switch (so you can see the content in tab) until you release the hotkeys. There used to be two separate switches (as it should be), but one core developer (Dão Gottwald) arbitrarily decided to merge the two together, despite multiple oppositions in the thread [1], because he thought "[w]ithout previews, switching in recently used order between more than two tabs would be unusable". I'm still salty about this after all the years, not because how the feature I liked was gone, but it's the first first-hand experience I had that shows how the direction of OSS projects can be dictated by a single person and you can do nothing about it. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335108
  • silon42 2y ago
    Well, the final switch can't really happen until you release "Ctrl", otherwise the feature would be broken... and it has to be indicated somehow that the switching mode is active... But would still like to switch between 20 or more or more most recent tabs, not just 7.