Open Bug 1702563 Opened 3 years ago Updated 1 month ago

Re-enable fullscreen toolbar autohide on macOS

Categories

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, task, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Toolbars and Customization
Platform:
Desktop
macOS
Type:
task

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox88 --- unaffected
firefox89 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [mac:fullscreen:native-affected][mac:fullscreen:nonnative-affected])

In bug 740148 comment 101, I noted that I'm going to allow toolbar autohide on macOS, but disable it by default. It can be re-enabled by right clicking on the toolbar in fullscreen mode and checking "Hide Toolbars".

We should eventually re-enable this behaviour by default on macOS for platform-parity. To do this, we need to:

  • Resolve the two unresolved issues in bug 740148 comment 87 (or, at the very least, check with Product and UX that they're not blockers)
  • Have UX review autohide on macOS (i.e. bug 1016361)
  • Audit what caused bug 1168397, to ensure that we're not going to encounter it accidentally in the future.
Severity: -- → S4
Priority: -- → P3

The current behavior (show toolbars by default) is in line with other browsers on Mac. I think this is a sensible default and what current users are used to. For users who always want to hide the toolbars, we store the setting across sessions.

TL;DR: I would consider this either a P5 or wontfix.

Harry, is that a feature that will be activated before the soft code freeze for 89 or will it be activated for a later release? Thanks

Flags: needinfo?(htwyford)

A later release, if at all.

status-firefox88: --- → unaffected
status-firefox89: --- → wontfix
Flags: needinfo?(htwyford)
Priority: P3 → P5
Whiteboard: [mac:fullscreen] → [mac:fullscreen:native-affected][mac:fullscreen:nonnative-affected]

It can be re-enabled by right clicking on the toolbar in fullscreen mode and checking "Hide Toolbars".

I'm not sure what are the sane defaults, but I ran into this issue looking for a way to hide whole UI in fullscreen mode -- "Hide toolbars" context menu is not really easy to discover. If you are going to move forward with showing toolbars in fullscreen by default then maybe show some pop-up saying: "hey! we still show toolbars but you can hide them as well!"

Chrome (Edge) and Safari have a "View > Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen" menu item.

Additionally (that might be specific to more current versions of the OS? Here macOS 14.5.):

  1. Cmd + Shift + F does not enter fullscreen mode
  2. Fn (Globe icon) + F enters fullscreen mode (see bug 1748950)
  3. Cmd + Shift + F toggles "Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen" in Chromuim browsers

Why not add the same menu item + #1 and #2 for functionality parity, and then consider #3?

Should these questions rather go into the UX bug 1016361?

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