Summary
View source currently opens in a separate window that doesn't share the browser UI or features and, being in toolkit, requires overlays to tack on minimal integration with Firefox. Without having a browser UI, the recent addition of link browsing feels incomplete since there's no way to open links in windows or tabs and back and forward are only available via the context menu. If view source were opened in a tab, we'd get these features for free and they'd stay in sync with any changes made to them for normal browsing.
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Non Goals
- Line numbering
- Better syntax highlighting
- Pet feature here