Reloads and discards old tabs data

[dezza]

Describe the bug If you open tab 1 and enter into a form field, then open a duplicate of tab 1 you lose form input in tab 1.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open tab 1, enter form input
2. Open tab 2 with same url
3. Tab 1 form input is cleared, the tab is reloaded

Expected behavior Do not reload.

Additional context Current settings: Close olders = 0 Keep the tab that is active = 1 Only http = 1 Querystring = 1 Hash = 0 Incognito = 0 Windows = 1 Containers = 1

Events Start = 0 Update = 0 Create = 1 Replace = 0 Datachange = 0

[dansteen]

I have this issue as well. According to the docs, it's supposed to preserve the existing tab when a new tab is opened and I have the "Close Olders" not checked. Instead it closes the existing tab and opens a new one regardless of what i select for that option. Thanks!

EDIT: A bit more poking reveals that it seems like it depends on the age of the tab. If I let the tab exist for more than ~60 seconds then the new tab will be closed instead. If the old tab has existed for less than ~60 seconds then the old tab will be closed.

[brcontainer]

@dezza @dansteen thanks for the suggestion, i will keep the progress report in -> https://github.com/brcontainer/prevent-duplicate-tabs/issues/12

I'm working to see the best way to solve this without having to resort to workarounds, as things like that are not part of the native webextensions APIs, so I'll have to inject scripts into the pages (but I want to avoid this path as much as possible, as it will require more user permissions)

[dansteen]

Thanks for looking into this @brcontainer!