1915736 - (Taskbar-Tabs) [meta] Taskbar Tabs

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

Meta ticket organize tickets related to Taskbar Tabs.

Comment 1

[Alfredo]

Hi,
will this fix this old bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202? Or is it unrelated?
Thank you

Comment 2

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

:Alfredo you can find context and the discussion thread on Mozilla Connect.

Comment 3

[jonrandy]

Is this available to test in Nightly desktop builds yet? I'm definitely keen to try it out!

Comment 4

[Eric Chen]

(In reply to jonrandy from comment #3)

Is this available to test in Nightly desktop builds yet? I'm definitely keen to try it out!

Should be something that we'll have available in the Nightly 139 cycle! You may see features progressively get landed into Nightly as we move towards a more complete product

Comment 5

[jonrandy]

(In reply to Eric Chen from comment #4)

(In reply to jonrandy from comment #3)

Is this available to test in Nightly desktop builds yet? I'm definitely keen to try it out!

Should be something that we'll have available in the Nightly 139 cycle! You may see features progressively get landed into Nightly as we move towards a more complete product

Noticed it has now reached Windows builds. Any chance Linux builds will see it soon?

Comment 6

[Ugi]

I've been keeping an eye on this meta bug for a while, and I've noticed that the recent bug dependencies created for it don't really have much impact on a product that isn't even a MVP yet. It might be helpful to prioritize being MVP first and then build on that. To reach that stage, two things need to be addressed: swapping out Firefox's icon for website favicons and ensuring that the taskbar tabs pin correctly, so they don’t merge with regular Firefox windows. With those two changes, you'll have a solid version for early adopters. After that, you can then focus on hiding toolbar context menus or deferring session restore, just to mention two recent bugs, as those might not add as much immediate value.

Let's not forget that Taskbar Tabs is the closest thing to the second most voted feature on Mozilla Connect, so there’s a lot of excitement around it.

Comment 7

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

We already have a timeline in mind for this that we have put a lot of effort into, but thanks for the suggestion.

Comment 8

[Eric Chen]

(In reply to Ugi from comment #6)

I've been keeping an eye on this meta bug for a while, and I've noticed that the recent bug dependencies created for it don't really have much impact on a product that isn't even a MVP yet. It might be helpful to prioritize being MVP first and then build on that. To reach that stage, two things need to be addressed: swapping out Firefox's icon for website favicons and ensuring that the taskbar tabs pin correctly, so they don’t merge with regular Firefox windows. With those two changes, you'll have a solid version for early adopters. After that, you can then focus on hiding toolbar context menus or deferring session restore, just to mention two recent bugs, as those might not add as much immediate value.

Let's not forget that Taskbar Tabs is the closest thing to the second most voted feature on Mozilla Connect, so there’s a lot of excitement around it.

Thanks for the feedback and I totally agree with you. Another engineer is working on those core components that you mentioned at the moment so it's out of my hands. I'm just as excited as you to see those features to roll out into Nightly, hopefully this month!

Comment 9

[daniele]

Noticed it has now reached Windows builds. Any chance Linux builds will see it soon?

The about:config preference is available on Linux with latest 139 builds, which is the developer edition, currently in beta 2: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Not sure what it actually does so far, I believe we'll have to wait a few release cycles to see anything happening at all :)

Comment 10

[Alice0775 White]

Sorry, I hit Enter key by mistake.

Comment 11

[709922234]

CSS media queries are currently not possible:

window.matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)') -> false

Comment 12

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

:709922234 Could you spin that out into a separate bug and add this as a dependent?

Comment 13

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Filling a release note request to make sure we don't miss it (i haven't seen it but maybe it is just me :)

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: New cool feature - mentioned in the press: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-is-finally-getting-a-feature-users-have-been-begging-to-have-for-ages/
[Affects Firefox for Android]: Probably not ?
[Suggested wording]: Added experimental support for running websites as standalone web apps (Firefox Labs feature)
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:

Comment 14

[Nick Rishel [:nrishel]]

:Sylvestre Some addendums to the Release Note Request, taking some verbiage from the Labs:

[Suggested wording]: Added support for running websites as web apps for Firefox. These are sites that you can pin and run as simplified windows directly from the taskbar, without loosing access to Add-ons.

N.b. this is not standalone in the sense that Web Apps are tied to the creating profile and can swap tabs in and out of windows of that profile. Also, this feature is riding the trains for release in Fx143, not just in Labs.

Comment 15

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Added to the Fx143 relnotes.

Comment 16

[Alex Leykin [:alexff]]

Depends on: 1989707