Option to disable side swipe gesture to close a tab

[brixter]

In Firefox Android, I often have multiple tabs open. When I scroll up and down to navigate through the tabs, I sometimes accidentally close a tab. Probably because I was swiping diagonally up. I have a few seconds to click the undo button that pops up.

I've never intentionally used this gesture since I click the x button to close a tab.

Please add an option to disable the side swipe gesture.

[TW8punk]

That's brilliant @ Jon. Thank you.

[brixter]

@JonThanks! I was wondering my idea hasn't gotten traction despite being a top kudoed idea for a few weeks now.

[Scab]

This is a seriously bad bug to me.

Lost countless tabs

[NickTheGreat]

+1 to fix this.  Or have a flag to disable.

[RedF]

This is a serious issue, please fix this. Why is this losing traction despite the support from the community manager? If this continues to be ignored then we will have to make our voices heard by making negative Play Store reviews.

A sort of workaround is to swipe at the edges if you can (or at the center between the tabs) so you are less prone to swipe diagonally, but even so it still happens! How can the sensitivity have been set to something that ridiculous and more importantly how can the developers still be oblivious to this issue?

[sf22]

+1 please enable this as an option in tab settings, I have janky fingers and it's a massive accessibility help for me

[RegularJohn]

This seems to be very hardware dependent. Was never an issue on the old phone, new phone it happens 10+ times a day. Even the slightest horizontal movement makes stuff fly off the screen.

Turn up the threshold to 11 or just let people disable it.

[RynverBadMind]

I want to personally thank the person who made this feature a reality... They have wasted so much of my time I simply use my phone less now.