109196 - floating thumbnail on TAB

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[mike lima]

Why not to enhance mozilla enabling a way it automatically constructs a page
thumbnail to float when user passes the mouse on a tab?  So, when mouse is over
one TAB the thumbnail for that page will be shown...
that would be really cool!

Comment 1

[mike lima]

I mean a small thumbnail of the page... let´s say something that could be 
adjusted in three sizes: 50, 100 and 150 pixels wide.

Comment 2

[mike lima]

Attachment: the way I imagine it...

Comment 3

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

-> Tabbed Browser

Comment 4

[timeless]

I seem to remember a group who implemented the key piece of this ;-)

Comment 5

[Colin Phillips]

We have a way of doing this under linux, but it needs work.  What we need is a
way (via mozilla) of taking a "picture" of a web page.  If there's a means of
doing it, I'd be very interested in working on it.

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

> What we need is a way (via mozilla) of taking a "picture" of a web page.  If 
> there's a means of doing it, I'd be very interested in working on it.

hewitt: did you do something like this (or am I mistaken).

Comment 7

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

yeah, there is a scriptable screen capture tool in inspector, but it isn't
exactly very fast

Comment 8

[Colin Phillips]

Ok, my project for the day is now to get inspector working.  :)

Comment 9

[Mike Potter]

There is a screen cap utility in OS X, it is quite fast.  That might be a good
starting point.  OEone also has one that runs under Linux, and its not bad, but
not as fast as OS X. Perhaps the screen cap utility for OS X is open source, but
I couldn't find out what they were using.

Comment 10

[Colin Phillips]

Ok, I have the inspector running now.  How do I get the screen capture utilty
working?  I don't actually see an option for it in any of the menu's.

Comment 11

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Oh, did I forget to mention that the screen capture code is currently only
implemented on Windows? ;) 

Comment 12

[Mike Potter]

That figures, since our bookmarks code is only implemented in Linux... :)

Comment 13

[Colin Phillips]

Joe,
Out of curiosity, is it dependant on some windows-only utility, or is it
actually done through mozilla itself?

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: set your filter for "SeverusSnape" to avoid the influx of bugmail

changing QA contact of open tabbed browser bugs from blake to me. if this bug
requires a reassignment, however, feel free to change it!

Comment 15

[David Hyatt]

Reassigning to new component owner.

Comment 16

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

There is now at least one extension that does what this bug asks for:
 Tab Preview - http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/index.html

And this extension implements something similar but different (it displays thumbnails for all open tabs in a new dedicated tab):
 Tab thumbnail preview - https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1374

I am pretty sure both of them use the relatively new Canvas drawWindow() method:
  http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/05/landed_canvas_d.html
  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas
  

Comment 17

[Christian Stadler]

mmh, since this can be and is solved by extensions now: Should this bug still remain open? If I want such a feature, I can simply install an extension for this. For all others, who can live without this, this would just be useless bloat, I suppose. So IMHO this should be wontfixed.

Regards,
  Christian Stadler

Comment 18

[Philip Chee]

Fixed in Bug 315207.