1714028 - Replace new proton button bar with true tab bar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, enhancement)

Description

[heavymetal]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Update to Firefox 89.

Actual results:

The tab bar got replaced by a flat, undecorated button bar, no longer visually related to the tabbed content in any way.

Expected results:

Firefox should respect the desktop environment it's running on, and use standard widgets provided by the platform. The new "button list" is totally pointless. While there are no longer separators between the individual tabs, there IS now a separator between a tab and its content. This is a totally unintuitive and violates the most basic design rules of tabbed user interfaces.
If you can't use system tabs because of the new multiline texts hinting current media playback status, please at least CONNECT the tabs to their content and visually separate the tabs from each other.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Theme' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello heavymetal! Thank you for your contribution!

Can you please provide a screenshot with the issue in order for me to better understand the issue you are pointing at and to further investigate it?

Comment 3

[heavymetal]

Attachment: hero-mr1-high-res.d2628e6f59f6.png

Comment 4

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Thank you for the reply heavymetal!
As per the new Proton implementation it is an expected behaviour for the tabs to not have separator between them. Marking this issue as an enhancement.

Jared do you know if in the future there is an ideea to include a separator between the tabs?

Comment 5

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

This is working as designed but we are soliciting user feedback for improvements over at ideas.mozilla.org.

Comment 6

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Thanks, HeavyMetal;

While this is working as designed (so it's not really a bug, and I'm going to close this one) you're not the only person who's suggested it. We're actively looking for feedback about product design over at https://ideas.mozilla.org and invite you to join us over there where there's already a conversation underway about this and other possible improvements to the product.

Comment 10

[PCurious]

I didn't come here to submit an "idea". This isn't an "idea".

It is a bug. It is a regression. It is something that used to work, and now doesn't work.