Closed Bug 1389259 Opened 7 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Use screenshots for pages in Top Sites for low res icons or non-root domains

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(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Activity Stream, enhancement, P5)

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Android
enhancement

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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(Reporter: mcomella, Unassigned)

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Details

(Whiteboard: [mobileAS])

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I spoke to bbell on Slack: our top sites titles will be "subdomain.domain" (bug 1386902) which can make can make it hard to disambiguate multiple pages from the same domain (e.g. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android and https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/). One way to help disambiguate are screenshots from the page.

When the top site is a page (e.g. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android), we should show a screenshot. When the top site is a domain (e.g. https://github.com/) we should show our high-res favicons, as per the current mocks. According to bbell, this is what desktop is doing.

We should try this out and get UX feedback on how it looks (before investing too heavily).

This code already exists from old top sites so it should be relatively quick to build a prototype - investigate ThumbnailsLoader [1].

[1]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4c5fbf49376351679dcc49f4cff26c3c2e055ccc/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/home/TopSitesPanel.java#789
Summary: Use screenshots for pages in Top Sites → Use screenshots for pages in Top Sites for low res icons or non-root domains
I'll let AS team to triage this bug
As per bug 1388396 comment 4, we may also want to do this when we can't find a nice icon.
Depends on: 1388396
We'd like the experience to be consistent across devices and this is what desktop is doing.
Priority: -- → P2
tracking-fennec: ? → ---
Priority: P2 → P3
All open Activity Stream bugs are moving from the whiteboard tag, "[mobileAS]", to the Firefox for Android component, "Activity Stream", so that I can keep better track of these bugs as the new triage owner; I will send out an email shortly with additional details, caveats, etc.
Component: General → Activity Stream
Hi. In Bug 1462597 I argued that it's better to always use screen shots instead of single letters or even favicons.

See example homepage:
https://bug1462597.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8976930

Compared to example tabs (same pages):
https://bug1462597.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8976932

I did notice there is a size difference:
* Tabs thumb: ~450x340px (on 1920 x 1080 phone)
* Homepage thumb: ~230x230px (on 1920 x 1080 phone)

But I would rather have 6 larger thumbs then 8 that are not really useful (not easily distinguishable).
Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.
Priority: P3 → P5
We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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