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Problem

Pressing a mouse thumb Back/Forward button over the right panel, anywhere except the page content of a Browser tab, moved the main chat to the previously viewed thread. The panel did not change. Chromium runs history back/forward on a thumb-button mouseup that nobody cancels. Only the streamed page canvas (and the desktop guest page) cancelled it, so presses over the tab strip, the browser toolbar and URL bar, and any non-browser tab reached the app router.

Reproduced on main 8b44f42b14 in the web dev server. The test drove headless Chromium with real thumb-button input (CDP Input.dispatchMouseEvent, button back). It opened two threads, then a Browser tab in the right panel with history p1 → p2 → p3:

• Back over the page canvas: the tab went to p2 and the main thread stayed. This path was already correct.
• Back over the URL bar: the main chat switched to the previous thread.
• Back over the active tab in the tab strip: the main chat switched to the previous thread.
• Back over Diff content: the main chat switched to the previous thread.
• Back over an open tab context menu (web): the main chat switched to the previous thread.

Change

• The right panel's shell (RightPanelTabs → PreviewPanelShell) handles thumb buttons 3 and 4:
  • On mousedown it cancels them, so a press over the URL bar no longer focuses it and leaves a stale address there.
  • On mouseup it cancels them and, when the active surface is a Browser tab, sends back/forward on the existing preview action bus. The visible PreviewView runs its toolbar handleBack/handleForward for both streamed and desktop tabs.
  • With any other tab active, the press does nothing.
  • Presses the page canvas already handled (defaultPrevented) are skipped, so the tab never steps twice.
• InputGroupAddon focuses its input only on a primary-button press. Without that, a thumb press on the address addon's padding focused the URL bar before the panel could cancel it, and the URL bar then stopped tracking the page.
• The web fallback context menu, which is attached to document.body outside the panel, cancels thumb presses as native desktop menus do.
• Over the main chat, thumb buttons still navigate between threads.

Scope and approval

Fixes #30854

Triaged via the automated issue flow. The panel-level surface history the issue floats as an option is out of scope here. Non-browser tabs take the issue's stated minimum: the press does nothing.

Verification

Focused tests (vp test run in apps/web):

• src/components/RightPanelTabs.browser.test.tsx, "right panel thumb buttons", 2 tests:
  • Both fail on main with expected { routerMoved: true } to deeply equal { routerMoved: false }; both pass now.
  • They check the tab strip and content with a Diff tab active, the Browser tab receiving back/forward, and no second step after the canvas already handled a press.
• src/contextMenuFallback.keyboard.browser.test.ts, "takes thumb Back and Forward presses so the app router stays put": fails without the menu change (expected false to be true), passes with it. The other 5 tests in the file still pass.
• The same file also checks a thumb press on an InputGroupAddon. Its focusMoved: true assertion failed until the addon's primary-button check was added; it passes now.
• src/components/preview/PreviewView.browser.test.tsx: 6/6 pass.
• vp run check:changed on the merge with main: format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests and react compiler all pass.

Real app after the fix, same setup (web dev server, fresh database, two replay threads, Browser tab on a local 3-page site, real CDP thumb input). The main route stayed on the second thread for every press over the panel:

Pointer over	Press	Browser tab	Main route
page canvas	Back	Page 3 → Page 2	unchanged
URL bar	Back	Page 2 → Page 1, URL bar follows	unchanged
active tab in tab strip	Forward	Page 1 → Page 2	unchanged
active tab in tab strip	Back	Page 2 → Page 1	unchanged
Diff content (Diff tab active)	Back	—	unchanged
tab strip (Diff tab active)	Back	—	unchanged
address addon padding (URL bar right edge)	Back	Page 2 → Page 1, URL bar not focused	unchanged
disabled toolbar Forward button	Forward	— (mouseup reaches the toolbar group)	unchanged
open tab context menu	Back	—	unchanged
main chat (control)	Back	—	moves to the previous thread, as before

Not checked:

• No before/after recordings are attached: the upload tool for evidence was unavailable in the environment that ran this, so the table above is the text transcript of that run.
• Not run in the Electron desktop app. There, page content is a native view still handled by its guest preload; the toolbar and tab strip use the same previewBridge.goBack/goForward as the toolbar buttons.
• Not run in sheet mode or on the pull requests page. Both render the same shell.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 205bfb7

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Mouse back/forward presses over the right panel now stay within preview navigation instead of moving the main chat. The change is localized to mouse-event handling and reuses existing history controls.

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Walkthrough

The right panel handles mouse Back and Forward presses without triggering app-router history navigation. Browser previews receive back and forward actions. Fallback context menus prevent default behavior for those mouse buttons.

Changes: Right-panel navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Thumb-button handling and routing apps/web/src/components/preview/thumbButtons.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewPanelShell.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx, apps/web/src/components/ui/input-group.tsx, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browser.test.tsx	Shared helpers handle mouse buttons 3 and 4. The right panel routes these buttons to Browser preview navigation actions, and the hosted browser wrapper routes them through previewBridge. Browser tests cover diff and Browser surfaces.
Preview back and forward actions apps/web/src/components/preview/previewActionBus.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewView.tsx	The preview action type adds back and forward. PreviewView calls the matching navigation handler for each action.
Fallback context-menu handling apps/web/src/contextMenuFallback.ts, apps/web/src/contextMenuFallback.keyboard.browser.test.ts	Fallback context menus prevent default behavior for mouse buttons 3 and 4. A browser test verifies the menu remains open after mouseup events for those buttons.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant RightPanelTabs
  participant previewActionBus
  participant PreviewView
  User->>RightPanelTabs: Press mouse button 3 or 4 over a preview
  RightPanelTabs->>previewActionBus: Dispatch back or forward
  previewActionBus->>PreviewView: Deliver preview action
  PreviewView->>PreviewView: Call handleBack or handleForward

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#33307 — Reports panel-versus-main navigation behavior for macOS swipe events, which differ from mouse buttons 3 and 4.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33259 — Reports similar right-panel Browser navigation behavior on a native Wayland page-content path.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#30878 — Addresses the same right-panel mouse Back/Forward behavior and shares the panel event handling and preview-action path.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 205bf

Thumb Back/Forward presses over the right panel no longer move the main chat. One narrow edge case is unconfirmed: a thumb release over a disabled address input might skip the new handling. The author reports it works, so the risk is low. The desktop Electron app and sheet mode were not tested.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing mouse Back/Forward presses over the right panel from navigating the main chat.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected behavior, implementation, issue scope, focused tests, observed results, a…
Linked Issues check		[#30854] The supplied PR evidence shows that RightPanelTabs routes thumb buttons 3 and 4 through PreviewPanelShell. It cancels focus and browser defaults across the panel. An active Browser tab re…
Out of Scope Changes check		The supplied change summary and reviewed file evidence show that the handlers, preview action variants, InputGroupAddon guard, fallback-menu handling, hosted-webview handling, and focused tests dire…

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The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected behavior, implementation, issue scope, focused tests, observed results, and known limitations. No screenshots or recording are attached, but the author documents that the evidence upload tool was unavailable and provides a detailed verification transcript.

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Explanation

[#30854] The supplied PR evidence shows that RightPanelTabs routes thumb buttons 3 and 4 through PreviewPanelShell. It cancels focus and browser defaults across the panel. An active Browser tab receives back or forward through dispatchPreviewAction; other tabs do nothing. PreviewView runs the existing navigation handlers, and already-cancelled page-canvas events do not run twice. InputGroupAddon and the web fallback menu cover the address-bar focus and menu paths. Focused tests cover the tab strip, panel content, Browser actions, duplicate prevention, menu behavior, and main-chat behavior. Main-chat navigation remains unchanged. This satisfies the coding requirements in [#30854].

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Explanation

The supplied change summary and reviewed file evidence show that the handlers, preview action variants, InputGroupAddon guard, fallback-menu handling, hosted-webview handling, and focused tests directly support [#30854]. The issue permits no action for non-Browser tabs when panel-scoped history is out of scope. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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- Line 1349: Restrict the address addon’s mouse-down focus behavior so presses
on its padding do not focus the URL input; only the primary button should
trigger the addon’s focus behavior. Update the addon configuration near
`preventThumbButtonFocus`, preserving the existing button interaction.
- Line 1350: Update the tab-strip hit area used by routeThumbButtonToSurface so
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apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browser.test.tsx: 1

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Test navigation through the PreviewView subscriber

The panel test checks action emission but does not render PreviewView. Exercise both actions through a visible PreviewView and assert the resulting browser history navigation. This can catch a regression where the action is emitted but the navigation handler does not run.

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Update the “go back and forward in the active browser tab” test to render a visible PreviewView subscribed to the emitted preview actions, then assert that both back and forward actions navigate the browser history. Keep the existing action-emission checks and use the established PreviewView test setup rather than assuming that emitted actions alone confirm navigation.

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Evidence

Proven in the real web and Linux desktop apps: panel thumb presses switch to Thread A on base; head keeps Thread B selected. Browser Back/Forward navigates its page history on head. Main-chat Back/Forward works on both commits.

Environment for every capture: Linux, 1440×900, light theme, isolated synthetic replay-thread fixtures. Web uses Chromium; desktop uses Electron under Xvfb. No live user database was used.

Steps: Open A then B and establish both backward and forward thread history around B. Follow Browser fixture links through pages 1 → 2 → 3. Press native Back/Forward over its address bar, tab strip, and page content. Repeat over Diff content, its tab strip, and its fallback context menu. Dismiss the menu and verify main-chat navigation. Separately, repeat over the desktop Browser device-size toolbar after loading the same three pages through its address bar.

Recordings include scripted history resets between independent presses; each tested panel press starts on Thread B. Stills below show the result after Back. Recordings also cover Forward and controls.

Interaction	Before	After
Commit	52d621a6f1	205bfb748f
Web address bar
Web tab strip
Diff content
Diff fallback menu
Desktop device toolbar
Web recording	Before	After
Desktop recording	Before	After

Web driver · Desktop driver · Isolated launcher · Launcher helper

Observed outcomes · All capture URLs, including Forward and controls

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• Terminal, Files, Device, Side chat, and pull-request surfaces were not exercised; Diff was the non-Browser surface specified in the reproduction.

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Evidence

Open A then B, follow Browser links through three pages while retaining control, and press Back/Forward over the address bar and Browser tab. Repeat over expanded Diff content, its tab and open context menu; check main-chat navigation. In Electron, target actual address-addon padding, then enable the hosted device toolbar and press Back/Forward over its padding.

Environment: Chromium web client at 1280×800 and built Linux Electron at 1280×840, light theme, fresh synthetic databases and identical drivers on both commits. Trusted CDP mouse input drove the real apps. The scenario runner exited 0: base failed and head passed.

Interaction	Before 52da4e5098	After bddf033ec0
Desktop addon padding: Back held
Hosted device toolbar: Back
Hosted device toolbar: Forward
Browser address: Back
Browser tab: Back
Diff content: Back
Diff tab: Back
Diff context menu: Back
Main-chat Back

Recordings: Before web · After web · Before desktop · After desktop.

Full scenario table including Forward captures · Proof manifest.

Scenario source · Browser setup patch · Browser launcher · Desktop driver · Reproduction instructions.

The saved desktop driver was rerun against fresh state on both commits. All twelve regenerated PNGs were byte-identical to the submitted captures and observations matched. SHA-256 rebuild audit · Rebuilt baseline recording · Rebuilt head recording.

Scope: the paired proof retains Browser control. Watching mode remains unproven; an exploratory head run after releasing control still changed threads on Back over the disabled URL input.

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• Watching mode is not proven fixed: an exploratory head run after releasing Browser control changed threads on Back over the disabled URL input. The completed paired proof retains control, matching the supplied link-following reproduction.