1955478 - Toggling vertical tabs hides extensions pinned to the tabs toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

Description

[08xjcec48]

Attachment: screenshot #1.png

Steps to reproduce:

• Pin an extension to your tabs toolbar (see screenshot #1)
• Turn on vertical tabs

Actual results:

Your extension is now hidden in the unified extensions button, even though it retains the "pinned" status.

Expected results:

The extension should be moved next to the address bar or lose the "pinned" status.

Comment 1

[08xjcec48]

Attachment: screenshot #2.png

Comment 2

[Nikki Sharpley (:nikkis) (she/her)]

Thanks for reporting! :sfoster, I recall this was intentional when we implemented vertical tabs, correct? Though, do you know if the extension should lose "pinned" status? That might indeed be a bug.

Comment 3

[08xjcec48]

Nikki, the issue is that it says it is pinned, but it is not.

You need to use the Customize Firefox page to place buttons where I indicated in the first screenshot.

Comment 4

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Yeah this is the expected behavior but I wonder if there's something we can do to improve it. Moving it under the unified extension button and still being pinned does seem contradictory. I'm doing to bounce this over to the addons team as this is the behavior they requested IIRC, but please feel free to move it back to sidebar if we should be tackling this.

Comment 5

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I can confirm the behavior mentioned in Comment 0. Tested on the latest Nightly (139.0a1/20250403215354), Beta (138.0b2/20250402091540) and Release (137.0/20250327043313) under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

When vertical tabs are enabled, the extension button that was pinned to the tabs toolbar will be hidden in the unified extensions panel and will retain the “pinned” status.

Comment 6

[William Durand [:willdurand]]

This is indeed working as intended.

If you are sure that you want to keep vertical tabs, then you can move the extension to the navbar, but otherwise this approach allows you to disable vertical tabs and get the extension back in the toolbar where you put it.