Proton: Show mute icon as a badge overlaid above the favicon instead of hiding it
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)
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(Reporter: lurux-dev, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: nightly-community)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0
Actual results:
The current behavior in Firefox Nightly is to hide the mute icon when the mouse is out of the tab strip, and have it replace the favicon when the mouse hovers the tab strip.
As brought up in #1701443, this makes it harder to distinguish tabs.
Expected results:
In the current versions of Firefox, the mute button is shown as a badge overlaid in the top-right corner of the favicon if the media is playing in picture-in-picture mode (see attachment). I think this behavior could be generalized in Firefox proton.
Clicking anywhere on the badge or favicon would toggle the mute action.
Note that this would allow to properly identify tabs playing media even if the mouse isn't hovering the tab strip, and even in compact mode.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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Could you please provide some step by step details on how to reproduce this?
We might have a bug for this but I'm not totally sure.
Thanks.
Hi Hani,
This happens whenever a tab is playing audio. As outlined #1701443, favicons are currently replaced by the media playing icons when hovering over the tab strip, which makes it harder to recognize websites. Incidentally, there is no way to know which tab is playing audio without hovering the tab strip in compact mode.
All of this seems to be per the proton design guidelines, as indicated in this anwser.
This issue suggests a solution to this problem, which would be to show the media playing / mute icons as a badge overlaid on top of the favicon instead, as illustrated in the attachment.
Is there any way to link this issue with the other one ?
Regards,
Lurux.
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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Is there any way to link this issue with the other one ?
yes, resolve duplicate of 1701443
Ah, I guess I should have suggested this in the other issue in the first place. I assumed concrete solutions should go into a separate issue - Sorry for the noise...
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