1131902 - Information density on about:sessionrestore is poor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1125952

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

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

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I know I'm an outlier with my hundreds of tabs, but only seeing 4 is pretty bad. The main purpose here is to show to the user that we didn't just lose all of your info when Firefox crashed. Seeing 4 tabs with no scrollbar (thanks OS X) definitely gives the initial impression that data was lost.

Comment 2

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

I just a filed a duplicate of this:

(In reply to Stephen Horlander [:shorlander] from comment #0)
> Created attachment 8575430 [details]
> Fixed height tab and window view
> 
> The updated visual styling for about:sessionrestore has a few drawbacks for
> managing your tabs in the event of a crash:
> 
> - Surrounding explanatory content is larger
> - View for toggling tab loading is smaller and has a fixed height
> 
> As a result you can only see about five tabs at a time. This make it very
> awkward to scroll through and try and find and disable the tab that may have
> crashed Firefox.
> 
> The tab/window view should scale vertically to use available space and it
> might be worth exploring reducing the height of the tab list item. A filter
> field might not hurt either.