As far as I remember it always was like that in Nautilus, I opened a Debian virtualbox image with Nautilus 2.30.1 (I think) and its the same.
** Package changed: ubuntu => nautilus (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/853135 Title: Nautilus applies "show hidden files" action to all tabs instead of only the selected one Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Steps: -Open 2 tabs in a Nautilus window. -Press Ctrl+H in one of them to show hidden files. -Hidden files are shown not only in the selected tab, but in the other tab as well. This is not the expected behavior, and is inconsistent to the behavior of past versions of Nautilus. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/853135/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp