** Description changed: When using the browser in phone mode (tested with M10 in desktop mode, stable channel): open a website, new tab, open another tab get back to the first tab the tab is empty, your website is reloading your phone then save more ressources/batteries (might be expected) when in desktop mode, with an easy access to tabs with mouse, every single time you change tabs, it will have the same user story (not expected imho) A lot of usual desktop experience is crashed by this behavior. If the device has enought power to do the desktop mode, it should allow opening more than one tabs with activ content example of bad user feelings : I open a website where there is a textarea I have a doubt about my text submission I open a new tab to check wikipedia My sentence seems correct after all I get back to the previous tab to try to focus the text input But the tab is reloading itself I have all the delay it takes to reload the page and will lose all the content I've previously set + Moreover, today, the desktop experience is more powerfull with webtools + than desktop app (only 3 or 4 xmir/desktop/snapp arepre-installed)... + Webtools that must reloads at every tab swap. + This is clearly something you don't want on a desktop, do you ?
** Description changed: When using the browser in phone mode (tested with M10 in desktop mode, stable channel): open a website, new tab, open another tab get back to the first tab the tab is empty, your website is reloading your phone then save more ressources/batteries (might be expected) when in desktop mode, with an easy access to tabs with mouse, every single time you change tabs, it will have the same user story (not expected imho) A lot of usual desktop experience is crashed by this behavior. If the device has enought power to do the desktop mode, it should allow opening more than one tabs with activ content example of bad user feelings : I open a website where there is a textarea I have a doubt about my text submission I open a new tab to check wikipedia My sentence seems correct after all I get back to the previous tab to try to focus the text input But the tab is reloading itself I have all the delay it takes to reload the page and will lose all the content I've previously set - Moreover, today, the desktop experience is more powerfull with webtools - than desktop app (only 3 or 4 xmir/desktop/snapp arepre-installed)... - Webtools that must reloads at every tab swap. + Moreover, today, the desktop experience is more powerfull with webtools (RIA) than desktop app (only 3 or 4 xmir/desktop/snapp arepre-installed, but anyway, userz use more and more web tools nowdays)... + Those webtools currently reload at every tab swap. This is clearly something you don't want on a desktop, do you ? ** Description changed: When using the browser in phone mode (tested with M10 in desktop mode, stable channel): open a website, new tab, open another tab get back to the first tab the tab is empty, your website is reloading your phone then save more ressources/batteries (might be expected) when in desktop mode, with an easy access to tabs with mouse, every single time you change tabs, it will have the same user story (not expected imho) A lot of usual desktop experience is crashed by this behavior. If the device has enought power to do the desktop mode, it should allow opening more than one tabs with activ content example of bad user feelings : I open a website where there is a textarea I have a doubt about my text submission I open a new tab to check wikipedia My sentence seems correct after all I get back to the previous tab to try to focus the text input But the tab is reloading itself I have all the delay it takes to reload the page and will lose all the content I've previously set - Moreover, today, the desktop experience is more powerfull with webtools (RIA) than desktop app (only 3 or 4 xmir/desktop/snapp arepre-installed, but anyway, userz use more and more web tools nowdays)... + Moreover, today, the desktop experience is more powerfull with webtools (RIA) than desktop app (only 3 or 4 xmir/desktop/snapp are pre-installed, but anyway, users use more and more web tools nowdays)... Those webtools currently reload at every tab swap. This is clearly something you don't want on a desktop, do you ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587187 Title: In desktop mode, can't "multitask-tab"ing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1587187/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs