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Veddu
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Status: New idea

It would be nice if I could navigate between open tabs, private tabs and synced tabs by swiping instead of clicking on the top for each section.

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Bjones
Strollin' around

Yes to this. Safari has it and it works fantastically. But I don’t use Safari. When most other nav can be done with swiping it’s jarring to have to use multiple taps to tab switch. 

steel835
Familiar face

Yes, my fingers agree with you, but that would conflict with swipe-to-close gesture though. Maybe move those section buttons to the bottom, closer to fingers? Or maybe make X buttons for tabs..

Bjones
Strollin' around

Oh I might have misunderstood this one, @Veddu do you mean functionality to switch between all tabs and all private tabs, rather than swiping to move to the next individual tab? 

Veddu
New member

@Bjones I mean the functionality to switch between all tabs and all private tabs. Since it looks like we are getting the ability to move the searchbar to bottom on the next update, maybe we will get the ability to swipe between open tabs like android aswell. @steel835 Chrome on iOS has this feature and I think it works great.

Bjones
Strollin' around

@Veddualright in that case I've made a separate idea asking for swiping between open tabs: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/swipe-between-open-tabs-on-ios/idi-p/2088#M804

yota
Strollin' around

Horizontal swipe gesture to switch betweeen Normal & Private(& Synced) Tabs View

Vertical swipe is used in the top section(with icons for tabs, private tabs & synced tabs, see the image) of the Tab view for maximizing or minimize it's view, horizontal swipes can be added in that section & the empty spaces below the tabs to switch between Normal/Private/Synced Tabs View.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: a similar idea has been merged into this thread)

abned
New member

Yes, I totally agree with, imo this is the only option left I hope it will come to Firefox when I switched from Vivaldi

tisolo
New member

Add Swipe touch controls for browser mode switching.

If you want to switch between private, non-private and tabs on other devices, it’s currently clunky having to press the buttons at the top.

Simple swipe gesture to switch between would be nice.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Similar idea here:

Swipe between tabs, private tabs and synced tabs. 

@tisolo if this aligns with your request, we can merge the two threads together (and votes) so the conversation stays focused in one space. Just let me know 😃

tisolo
New member

Oh I just thought of posting without searching prior. Yes that’s exactly it, feel free to - thank you!

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

@tisolo no worries - just wanted to be sure. I'll go ahead and merge the two.

Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

mozillastress2
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I think many users have already requested this. And think it is liked by many since at times users want some sessions to be logged in and some ( like random searches) in private more.

The swipe makes it quite neat and a familiar interface as it is there on many other browsers, namely Safari and Vivaldi.

I do look forward to it.