1107563 - Add "Tap to View Image" mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1170725

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[xshen]

Attachment: no-image-view-mode.jpg

Add "No Image View Mode" and allow user to enable/disable it.Please see the screenshot.
The "No Image View Mode" is in Firefox preference.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

We've been discussing support for tap-to-load for images, which I think addresses this use case.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Let's build on the initial concept a bit. We want to allow users to control the bandwidth consumed by images. The current plan is to develop a "tap to view" system, similar to the plugin system. This would allow at least three modes:

1. Always show images
2. Never show images
3. Tap to view image

#1 and #2 are global settings, currently they affect all open tabs. We could change this to be tab/<browser> specific if needed, but I don't think that is the priority.

#3 would show simple placeholders in-place of images. The image itself is not downloaded. If the user taps the placeholder, the image (only that image) would be downloaded and displayed. It's also possible that the placeholder could show an indication of the image size (bytes) so the user has more information on the bandwidth impact if they choose to view the image. Getting the image size could be done without actually downloading the image, using some HTTP HEAD request to fetch the "Content-Length". If the "Content-Length" is found, we could display an indicator (or the genral size) in the placeholder.

Comment 3

[Matthew Willse [:mattheww]]

Attachment: url_search_suggestions.png

An additional approach could surface a just-in-time choice between #1 and #3, to show images or use tap to view placeholders. 

Using the url/search suggestions, we could add a right-aligned button to quick load a page. Attached mockup needs copy and UI refinement, but shows how this UX can be unobtrusive and more accessible than a global setting.  

I'm calling this quickload to align it with the user's hopes and expectations, rather than the technical intervention.

Comment 4

[Matthew Willse [:mattheww]]

If yahoo/google search results are labeled as slow, FF could offer the option to open with "tap to view" enabled on that site. 

http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-red-slow-label-search-results-slower-sites-215483

Comment 5

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This was fixed in bug 1170725.