1792430 - Allow pinned tabs to be hidden

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Jean Claveau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Steps to reproduce:

I use the Simple Tab Groups extension

Actual results:

The pinned tabs remain displayed whichever group is opened.

Expected results:

Pinned tabs should be attachable to groups then hidden or displayed depending on which one is opened.

As mentioned here https://github.com/Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups/issues/286, this is due to a limitation of the the tabs.hide() api which is not allowed with pinned tabs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/hide

I don't know if there is any kind of security issue related to it but allowing this api with pinned tabs would greatly improve the UX of this extension.

Feel free to close if it is not feasible.

Btw, thank you very much for keeping the web opened!

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Hello, thank you for the bug report!
I managed to reproduce this issue on:

• Firefox 106.0;
• Firefox 107.0b1;
• Nightly 108.0a1;

Tested on:

• macOS 12;
• Ubuntu 22;
• Windows 10;

I will set this Enhancement as NEW so the developers can take a look at it.