I believe this was added in https://chromereviews.googleplex.com/486917013 by olivierrobin@
Per discussion with mardini@, this is often triggered by accident, marking unread reading list items as read.
olivierrobin@ do we have any metrics on this feature?
Éric: I know you and I discussed this a lot during the implementation of V1 Reading List and we added it based on your request. I honestly didn't find it useful and on the contrary, found that it is forcing me to go and mark items as unread since I trigger it accidentally all the time. Happy to chat more in person tomorrow.
Verified in 73.0.3629.0 Canary in iPhone 8plus(iOS 11.4.1), iPad Air(iOS 12.0.1)
Swipe forward gesture to open next reading list item is now removed
Tested in following combinations
1. Swipe forward from NTP page
2. Swipe forward from Offline reading list page
3. Swipe forward from Tab page which is loaded with webpage
None of the above cases displays reading list.
justincohen@ could you please confirm this is the expected behavior
Link to video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lC2zcSDcYStc6x-T-xLM0n01fhcZWKIi/view?usp=sharing
Comment 1 by olivierrobin@chromium.org
, Nov 28