621477 - Notification alert for normal tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588589

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Jack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101225 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20101225 Firefox/4.0b9pre

Internet Explorer has this feature I don't know about the beta. The previous versions of IE definitely had a orange flash over tabs requiring attention. Almost all versions of Windows Taskbar has a bright orange notification also. Windows 7 has a nice glow/flash that flashes for a few seconds before finally staying bright orange until attention is received.

This glow/alert could be activated by the name of a tab changing, such as on Facebook: New message from "name".
Or a notification for email, Facebook, whatever something like: (*)
The wildcard could be any number of notifications.

This especially would be helpful apptabs which have no way of notifying a user of a change. I think Chrome has this feature with apptabs but with a shaking effect?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Talk to someone on Facebook, pin as app tab.
2. No way of noticing that you've received a new message from your mate.

Comment 1

[Jack]

Attachment: My New Notification Mockup (Windows 7 like)

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

So how does it currently look for you? Can you please attach a screenshot? App tabs should always get highlighted.

Comment 3

[Jack]

Ah sorry, just realised that this was recently implemented in app tabs but still not in regular tabs. 
It should be implemented in regular tabs especially when in tab overflow, title changes could not be very clearly noticed because the tabs are so small.

The red gradient could be changed to the bright orange like in the attached image. The plain dark red is a bit of a forceful/dull colour.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Lets get feedback from UX then.

Comment 5

[Jack]

Um, I found another bug similar to mine...
Has the same intentions as mine I think:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588589

Sorry if it's a duplicate :(

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Yeah, that's a dupe. Thanks for finding it!