Comment 5 for bug 1442851

Thanks for your input mpt. Some comments:

> If they are retained, both these settings should be checkboxes

That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of this distinction. It makes sense to me, once explained. Is this documented somewhere? https://design.ubuntu.com/apps/building-blocks/selection doesn’t seem to mention when to use one or the other (and by the way the image for the checkbox component is wrong.

> But these settings just happen to be using the wrong control anyway.

Let’s use this bug report to track this.

> Abolish the "Restore previous session at startup" setting,
> making the browser always behave that way.

It has always been the default behaviour (and there was a time when there was no setting for this), but some users complained that they wanted the opposite behaviour, where they mostly use the browser for throwaway sessions, and re-opening previously open tabs uses up data when undesired. Which is why that setting way introduced.

> Abolish the "Allow opening new tabs in [the] background" setting.

I tend to agree with you on this, but this was explicitly requested by Giorgio back in the days, with a different default for desktop (on) and mobile (off). I’d be more than happy to remove the setting and have the contextual action always there. James, could you maybe comment on this? (Olga, would you mind re-assigning to James? I can’t do it myself)