1398065 - Ability to move a custom tab/web app into the full UI wholesale and without state loss

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

We have a button (at least for custom tabs) that allows opening the current page in a full browser, however I think currently this simply fires off a generic URL open intent.

We should think about a closer integration with our full UI here and instead move the <browser> that's powering the custom tab into the BrowserApp Gecko "window" (like what happens on Desktop when you move tabs between windows) and wrap it into a new tab object, so as to preserve the full state of the page.

Comment 1

[Kuba Niewiarowski]

(similarly to Google Chrome)

Comment 2

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Yeah, this should be pretty doable and IMHO should be one of the main priorities for Custom Tabs after the initial features.

Comment 3

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