1721417 - Sound icon hidden on tabs after update to version v90

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[cajkrargmmhqvnmcql]

Attachment: defect.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

Steps to reproduce:

I was having many tabs open and I wanted to know which tab was playing audio.

Actual results:

I was not able to find tab easily, I had to look them one by one.

Expected results:

Tabs that play should display speaker icon.

As you can see from attached defect.png the speaker icon itself is not visible. Only the gray text PLAYING which is hard to see because of low contrast. Who ever made that decision should step back from designer position immediately.

Previous theme where black speaker icon was displayed on top of tab icon was much easier to understand. Now it takes time to go through.

I cant upload here more than one image but here is the icon that should be appearing on tab. https://imgur.com/ARgNGQk

That speaker icon. It only appears when I move mouse over tab but that is completely useless. The entire purpose of this icon is to help me to find tabs which are playing audio faster. But now it is only good for confirming that tab is playing. If I have 300 tabs open I have to move my mouse over them one by one. That is utterly useless UI and needs to be fixed. There should be high contrast icon that easily lets me locate playing tab.

PS also note that if that request gets ignored or deleted, it will be reposted until it gets attention of someone who has more than 2 brain cells.

Comment 1

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

I was able to reproduce this issue on latest Nightly version 92.0a1 (2021-07-21) (64-bit), Beta 91.0b5 (64-bit), and Firefox Release 90.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows 10. I'll change flags accordingly. Severity suggested S3.

Comment 2

[Sören Hentzschel]

Who ever made that decision should step back from designer position immediately.

also note that if that request gets ignored or deleted, it will be reposted

attention of someone who has more than 2 brain cells

While I understand that you don't like it because different people have different opinions, it's not helpful to offend other people with different opinions than yours. Please be respectful and follow the etiquette and contributor guidelines: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Comment 3

[cajkrargmmhqvnmcql]

Maybe then at least add option under about:config to choose it? Currently you force one man's opinion on everyone without choice. Or at least make questionnaire or something because how do you know that the designer isn't the only person in the world who wanted this?

Comment 4

[cajkrargmmhqvnmcql]

And I really dont see this as opinion. It' is really just a binary issue - you either see this notification or you dont. It's not like rounded corners vs sharp corners where you can have n different opinions. It's very clearly whether you see notification or you dont.

Comment 5

[Will]

This issue was also very popular on r/Firefox last year, very disappointing to see it hasn't been fixed yet https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nld9yd/i_think_showing_sound_icon_is_better_than_text/

(I just got a new laptop and decided to give the default "Normal" density a try and this issue has already forced me to go to "Compact" density...)