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Investigating the process of opening articles in new tabs from other articles
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Description

This ticket is to investigate the expected behavior when opening new articles while you are reading and how this affect the users; please check the description that we received from a user:

"Opening articles in new tabs from other articles (not through the search):
the new tab appears in the tab scroll above the current tab, but after going to read the new tab and back, the new tab "moves" to the end of the tabs view.
It's a bit confusing when you're trying to get back to that article.
I'm not sure but I think if you open a few tabs, jump to them and try to get back, they all keep repositioning themselves according to the reading order, so the articles read later keep moving to the end of the tab view.
It seems to me counter-intuitive compared to a web browser, where a new content tab appears right after the tab from which it was opened and stays there."

Event Timeline

In the future we want our designer to think about our existing tabs behavior and how it compares to Google Chrome/Firefox/Etc and if we should make improvements to tab behavior

LGoto triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 31 2023, 5:43 PM
LGoto moved this task from Needs Triage to UX Debt Backlog on the Wikipedia-Android-App board.

+1 request received through the support email on the 10th of Jan. 2025