Open Bug 1685909 Opened 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Replace Tab hover info popup with a tooltip

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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Firefox 84
x86_64
All
enhancement

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(Reporter: u677679, Unassigned)

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Attached image chrome.jpg (obsolete) —

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Place the mouse over the tab.

Actual results:

Enable a tooltip with the name of the tab when hovering over a tab.

Expected results:

Enables a popup containing tab information to be visible when hovering over a tab.

Place the mouse over the tab.

What tab? How to get some tab called "Experiments" somehow somewhere? Please provide complete and full steps to reproduce - thanks!

Flags: needinfo?(fabrizio.bagala)

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Tabbed Browser

(In reply to Release mgmt bot [:sylvestre / :calixte / :marco for bugbug] from comment #2)

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

The component is correct.

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)

Place the mouse over the tab.

What tab? How to get some tab called "Experiments" somehow somewhere? Please provide complete and full steps to reproduce - thanks!

The screenshot I captured from Google Chrome and stood for the behavior that occurs when you hover over a tab.

What tab? Any tab.
How to get some tab called "Experiments" somehow somewhere? The "Experiments" tab is just an example.
Please provide complete and full steps to reproduce.

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Type in the address bar any URL. For example, https://duckduckgo.com/.
  3. When hovering over a tab, a tooltip containing tab name to be visible.

Please look at the screenshots to see the difference.

Flags: needinfo?(fabrizio.bagala)
Attached image Chrome - Hover tab.jpg
Attachment #9196250 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attached image Firefox - Hover tab.jpg

Hi, how is it relevant if it's a "tooltip" or if it's a "popup"?

Do you basically request "show tab title and its URL", while currently it only shows the tab title? It's unclear to me what's requested here...

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #7)

Hi, how is it relevant if it's a "tooltip" or if it's a "popup"?

Do you basically request "show tab title and its URL", while currently it only shows the tab title? It's unclear to me what's requested here...

Hi, basically, I intend to replace the tooltip with a popup. It is nicer to see, and it is useful when you have many tabs open and want to see what the pages are about, without clicking on them, keeping the page you're working on in the foreground.

Apple Safari and all Chromium-based browsers have already implemented this feature.

Please check out the links below to get a little clearer idea:
https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/use-tabs-for-webpages-sfri11576/mac
https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/01/08/microsoft-edges-new-tab-preview-feature-will-respect-windows-animations/

Summary: Tab Hover Cards → Replace Tab hover info popup with a tooltip
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64

This looks related to my request for enhancement in bug 1671920

(In reply to Pascal Chevrel:pascalc from comment #9)

This looks related to my request for enhancement in bug 1671920

It is similar. The approach that Apple has adopted, I think, is better.

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