Bug: Holding Shift+W spawns a lot of empty windows
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Description
W (Shift+W) separates a tab from a window. Holding it spawns a lot of empty windows. I think it shouldn't.
To Reproduce
- Have a window with multiple tabs
- The one you want to separate into its own window is suspended (I used FF-tab-suspender. I suspect e.g. The Great Suspender also works as a test example)
- Refresh that tab to unsuspend it
- While it's refreshing, hold Shift+W to move it to a new window ASAP
- It's moved, but humans are slow, and so a bunch of new windows open as well
Browser and Vimium version
- Firefox 76.0.1 64-bit
- Vimium 1.66
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the Shift+W sequence in Firefox with a suspended tab, using the Vimium keyboard handling entry point for separating a tab. Trace what happens while the tab is still refreshing and verify that one separation produces only one new window, with no additional empty windows.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100