Hard to switch tabs in Android tablet

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reproducing the tab-selection behavior on the reported Amazon Fire HD 8 with Android 9 and Brave, then compare it with the archived December 20, 2022 page linked in the issue. Review the tab/menu handling changes mentioned in the report. Done means tabs can be selected reliably with a tap while ordinary links continue to work.

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Description

I have been reading Scripting News for a couple years on my Amazon Fire HD 8 (10th generation) running Android version 9 using Brave browser (version 1.61.109)

Recently, I find I have a hard time changing/clicking new tabs on the main page. I expect to be able to tap to move to/select the desired tab. What actually happens is difficult to describe but is one of these behaviors:

  • I almost always have to tap a tab twice to switch
  • Sometimes I have to tap many more times.
  • Maybe it helps to "double-tap" where I tap, wait bit, then tap again (about the time between beats for Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees)
  • In all cases, I simply farble around, clicking as long as necessary to get to the new tab

I have not determined a pattern to what triggers any of these behaviors. I have also tried varying tap-lengths from brief to holding down for a second.

To rule out hardware problems, I made two tests, both work as expected, and seem to rule out any hardware problem in my tablet.

  1. Clicking any of the underlined links in the body of the page works as expected: A tap will go to the desired page; long-clicking opens the context menu that allows me to open in a new tab, etc.

  2. I used archive.org to look at Scripting News in the past. The tabs work exactly as expected. I chose December 20, 2022 at 05:31:49 (https://web.archive.org/web/20221221053149/http://scripting.com/) .

I started noticing this around the time the newest Scripting News came out; I remember some mention of making all the tab/menu handling the same across all the programs and I wonder if this behavior is related.

What other debugging information could I provide? Many thanks.

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