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Can no longer use gestures to close new tabs set to open a blank page (firefox 108)
After updating to Firefox 108, it's no longer possible to use gesture extensions on new tabs set to open "Blank page" here: Tools > Settings > Home > New Windows… (read more)
After updating to Firefox 108, it's no longer possible to use gesture extensions on new tabs set to open "Blank page" here: Tools > Settings > Home > New Windows and Tabs > New tabs: "Blank page".
However, when manually browsing to about:blank the page still allows gestures. E.g. to close the tab, or navigate away from it.
Viewing the page source of the "Blank page", Firefox 108 does not actually open about:blank when set to "Blank page" but instead opens about:newtab.
Either about:newtab used to allow extensions to run and no longer does, or the behavior has changed so that it now opens about:newtab instead of about:blank when setting Firefox to open new tabs in "Blank page".
This breaks work flows of using a gesture to open a new tab and gestures to navigate away from it or close it.