1955817 - Add ability to search all tabs with vertical tabs

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Sidebar, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Zade Viggers [:zade]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Turn on vertical tabs
2. Minimise sidebar to just icon
3. Snap window to half the screen to multitask
4. Try and find a site with a specific title

Actual results:

There was no way to search the tabs, and no way to add the tab search menu to the sidebar

Expected results:

There should be an option to add the tab search menu to the sidebar, like I can in normal tabs mode with the top toolbar

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

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

With the horizontal tab strip we have the all-tabs button which has a "search tabs" menu item. This moves focus to the address bar in tab search mode. We had decided not to use this button in vertical tabs, but it means we don't get these menu options.

We do have plans to add tab search in the sidebar, but no bugs filed yet. Maybe this is that bug.