1089914 - Focus remote tab when chosen from tab list

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: about:debugging, defect, P3)

Description

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

If you choose a tab from the tab list that is not actually selected in the browser, we don't yet focus it.  Also, it could be a zombie, so you can't really debug until it is focused anyway.

We already focus apps on select, so we should do the same for tabs.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

A zombie?

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] (slow to respond. Ping me on IRC) from comment #1)
> A zombie?

Maybe it's a Fennec-specific term at Mozilla...  The real tab is closed and history is saved to session store to save memory, and replaced with a fake / "zombie" tab[1] that just has title and URL.  If it's selected again, it can be "revived" (I am guessing this is the "zombie" part) back into a real tab.

[1]: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/chrome/content/MemoryObserver.js#38

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

About:debugging bug triage. Filter on TRIAGE-JD201705

Temporarily setting P3 to bugs migrated from webide to cleanup the triage for about:debugging.