1494755 - (tab-manager) [meta] Tab Manager

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Screenshot_2018-09-27 Multi-Selected Tabs - No Tab Groups.jpg

This feature will make the All Tabs button always visible and add multiple controls to the menu that will allow for reloading all tabs, mute tabs, see what tabs are loaded in each window, and more.

Comment 1

[arcooke]

Just throwing my two cents in here as a Nightly user.  I don't like this proposed layout or the recent changes pushed to Nightly.  While it looks nice, it just adds extra time needed by the user to access commonly used options like "close other tabs". The "other tab options" sub-menu has been in Nightly for a few days and it's already become frustrating to use. 

If it's not encroaching height limitations to this menu on low resolution displays, I think it's better and more intuitive to just lay out the options with ordinary menu separators.

https://jsfiddle.net/1v5u96m3/1/

Comment 4

[larabe]

Now that https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1480542 was implemented it seems like a great opportunity to add the real tab managing functionality to it.

Comment 5

[bbell]

Attachment: Tab Manager.png

Comment 6

[0RUBn0]

Additional improvement possibly here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620199

Comment 7

[Will]

Feature request for this: somewhere, show the number of tabs the user has open. Browsers on the iPad and Chrome OS do this already. It's nice to know how many tabs you have open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625377

Comment 12

[Mos At]

While at it,

place List all tabs button at the left side where it belongs, it can be hit effortlessly on a maximized window
suitable for browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled, unlike now, button moving on opening a tab until reaching the end
many would stop chasing clumsy / inefficient / potentially insecure vertical tabs, if aware it can be moved via Customize

increase browser.tabs.tabMinWidth or scale it based on res, 160 is close to ideal 11-12 tabs on 1080p
not useful to have twice the number of tabs in view, when you can't read any titles
with 80 bugzillas open in 768p or 1080p 150% can read 3 numbers perfectly + 1 dimmed + 1 barely visible..

use the same size for min, max, close buttons as for tab scroll and List all buttons, just like under full-screen mode
also remove the 2 x button size separator at the right of the tab strip, just like under full-screen mode

remove overflow-start-indicator / overflow-end-indicator, the respective tab scroll button already lights up as indicator
it's looks so objectively ugly that a new user would mistake it for a visual artifact bug, not a design choice
can't even fix it via userChrome.css as it seems to be overridden somewhere in javascript

remove mask-image of tab label overflow and port the tab separator over to Proton, it's indispensable for clarity
.tab-label-container[textoverflow] {mask-image: unset !important;}

add Restore Previous Session entry to the History toolbar menu
a new annoyance with Proton, entry in hamburger menu was removed

add Bookmark All Tabs entry back, it's removal totally missed the point of urgently clicking it because your pc is shutting down or whatever

Implementation cost: 5 minutes. Maintenance cost: none. User impact: happy, happy, happy [1]
[1] based on user study, details available on request

Comment 13

[Mos At]

thanks for the quick off-topic tag, well deserved for adding mostly complementary suggestions on a issue talking about implementing changes to the List all tabs menu, finally getting some attention after sitting for 3 years in bugzilla closet.

Comment 14

[Will]

small but worthy improvement, please add :) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1726484

Comment 15

[inutsume]

Already commented in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776669 but I guess it doesn't hurt to do so here too (since this one is still open while 776669 is closed)

Would it be possible to add a toggle in the about:config for if pinned tabs should be included or not in the "All tabs" drop-down?
I usually have around 60~70 tabs open, about 30 of them pinned basically permanently and now with all tabs showing in the "All tabs" menu it involves quite a lot of scrolling on my part, since I need to scroll through all my pinned tabs (which I'm seeing anyways, as they are pinned) to get to the unpinned ones.
Thanks for considering!

Comment 16

[08xjcec48]

Please add these issues to the "depends on" list:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618791

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=953217