675541 - Stalled (unloaded) tabs should be styled to be visually distinguishable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 716279

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Wilson]

Since bug 586068 landed - there is a new state for every tab: it can be stalled (unloaded).

But on the tab bar they look absolutely similar to the loaded tabs.
In some cases a user might want to know whether the page is loaded or not. An example case may be a heavy (with lots of graphics) page that a user wanted to read later, when he has more free time to read the huge text on that page.
After the restart of the browser, all the tabs gets stalled, as user has browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 0 as he feels more comfortable this way.
Some other tabs may have been also postponed by the user in order to read them later, but now all he sees is tabs' titles, and he doesn't remember anymore whether this tab is that awfully heavy page, that he doesn't want to read now, or it is one of those small scientific articles he wanted to read later, when he was busy, but is willing to read now.

Comment 2

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

For showing unloaded state faded tabs (like BarTab has) may be used.
In addition, the List all tabs popup and Panorama may also indicate unloaded tabs.

Comment 3

[Ioana (away)]

This issue does reproduce, but it seems to be more an enhancement request than an actual bug.

Comment 4

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

http://userstyles.org/styles/49376/ff8-identify-unloaded-tabs

Comment 5

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

I'm duping this forward because there's a bit more discussion in the other bug.

Comment 6

[Sean Newman]

Please, change the status of this bug back to "new" and mark the new one as duplicate, this will be more correct.

Comment 7

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

(In reply to Sean Newman from comment #6)
> Please, change the status of this bug back to "new" and mark the new one as
> duplicate, this will be more correct.

The other bug has more value as the active bug, so I will leave it as is.

Comment 8

[Sean Newman]

How can a duplicate have more value? These bugs are equal, except this one is older and the new is a dupe of this one.

Comment 9

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

(In reply to Sean Newman from comment #8)
> How can a duplicate have more value? These bugs are equal, except this one
> is older and the new is a dupe of this one.

There is discussion amongst parties involved in making it happen in the other bug. If we decided which bug was a duplicate purely on age, many important discussions would be missed. Let's not get hung up on that and just move on.

Comment 10

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Sean: please do not bulk-CC people on bugs without good reason. Thanks.