Open Bug 1944133 Opened 16 days ago Updated 2 days ago

Onboarding message about "if you close a tab group" is unclear about what it means by "close"

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(Firefox :: Messaging System, defect)

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(Reporter: dholbert, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

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I noticed a tab-groups-onboarding message today which pointed to the "List all tabs" menu. The text said:

If you close a tab group, you can reopen it here anytime.

(This was added in bug 1943442.)

We might want to modify the language there -- I think we might really intend to say "collapse" or something on those lines, rather than "close"?

Intuitively, I interpret (and I think users interpret) "close a tab group" as meaning "close all of the tabs in the tab group" (which for a tab group would mean clicking all the "x" buttons, or right-clicking the tab-group and choosing "Delete"). And if you do either of those things, then the list-all-tabs menu does not have any UI to reopen that group, which seems to superficially contradict what this onboarding message was trying to say.

Summary: Onboarding message about "if you close a tab group" is unclear → Onboarding message about "if you close a tab group" is unclear about what it means by "close"

(I assume the message is really talking about the collapse/uncollapse action that happens when you click on the tab-group's name -- hence I wonder if "collapse" or similar language [to evoke shrinking-but-not-dismissing-entirely] would get the point across more clearly.)

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #1)

(I assume the message is really talking about the collapse/uncollapse action that happens when you click on the tab-group's name -- hence I wonder if "collapse" or similar language [to evoke shrinking-but-not-dismissing-entirely] would get the point across more clearly.)

Hi Daniel! In this case "close" is referring to the "save and close" action from the context menu, which removes a tab group from the bar but doesn't delete it. Maybe the wording should be "save and close" instead of just "close"?

Flags: needinfo?(laura.c.lopez1)

Hi Emily - thanks! Yeah, that would be clearer, but still probably not clear enough -- a user won't know what "Save and close" means. If we're wanting to tell them about the save-and-close UI, we need to show them where to find that UI.

(FWIW, personally I didn't realize that the tab-group-button had its own special right-click context menu until you mentioned it -- and even then, when I was looking for it, I started out by right-clicking one of the grouped tabs [since that's part of the group] and I looked for Save-and-close there and didn't find it.)

:emcminn to confirm if this string has since been updated and will handle bug accordingly

Flags: needinfo?(emcminn)
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