117161 - Local progressbar for each tab (no need to constantly switch between tabs to see what's happening)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Hessentswey]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20011226
BuildID:    2001122603

When loading a page, progressbar shows progress, but only for the active tab. It
should be great if on the background of the each tab title (no additional space
used) will be placed local progressbar, so that there could be no need to
permanently switch between tabs to see what's happening now.

(I think another thing could be useful. Mozilla starts to paint the page later
than it gets first bits of page source. So you switch to the tab and see it's
still blank, or still displaying previous page. If tab title will change colour
or decoration from blue (or underlined) if Mozilla cannot display anything new
to default colour (or not underlined) whet it start to paint the page, it will
be great.)

I can send screenshots to show how it could look.

Thank you

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

could you pls attach the screenshots? thx!

Comment 2

[Alexander Hessentswey]

Attachment: Tab with progressbar: page painting was not started already

Tab with progressbar in the background: page painting was not started already
(that is indicated by the thin sign at the right).

Comment 3

[Alexander Hessentswey]

Attachment: Tab with progressbar: page painting was started

Tab with progressbar in the background: page painting was started (the thin
sign at the right disappeared).

Comment 4

[Markus Gerstel]

Valid and interesting RFE

Comment 5

[xyzzy]

It would be really cool if a fix for this would fix bug 119744 as well.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

With many tabs open, tab width can be too narrow for this to be useful. Maybe
better to place mouse pointer over the tab whose status is desired and see a
tooltip with status pop up to obscure the normal status bar until the mouse
pointer is moved off the tab.

Comment 7

[Alexander Hessentswey]

We have another variant - two methods simultaneously.

Comment 8

[Nick_Jenkins]

Please also see Bug 169380 for an alternative suggestion for indicating how
loaded a tab is (includes an image of a tab showing the various states of loading).

Comment 9

[Alexander Hessentswey]

There is Netscape/Mozilla/Mozilla Firebird extension that implements this
feature ('Show Progress Meter in Tabs' in Tabbrowser Extensions' preferences, on
by default)
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

Bug 581042 should help the core issue of not seeing what tabs are doing, but won't solve this yet. Firefox is working on implementing this actual feature, we could look there to see if/how we can adopt their solution.