[horizontal tabs] Sound playing/mute icon for unpinned tabs shifts tab content
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: CPuckett.Dynetics, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: blocked-ux, Whiteboard: [fidefe-sidebar])
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FireFoxMuteTabRegression.png
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0
Steps to reproduce:
The mute button on tabs has changed between FireFox 131 and FireFox 136.
- The button is now in the middle of the tab making it difficult to click a tab without clicking the button.
- The tabs change width unexpectedly as sound starts/stops playing and the button is added to and removed from the tab. This can cause user clicks to unintended tabs as they move just before a click.
Actual results:
Unnatural and unexpected UI behavior.
Expected results:
Probably need to move the mute button out of the middle of the tab and to the end next to the close tab button. That would leave a larger space at the front of the tab to click it.
Also need to not resize the tabs as the mute button changes.
If it's not already available, maybe add a user preference to specify a minimum tab width so users can configure more space to click.
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Comment 1•25 days ago
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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.
(In reply to CPuckett.Dynetics from comment #0)
If it's not already available, maybe add a user preference to specify a minimum tab width so users can configure more space to click.
Well there is browser.tabs.tabMinWidth...
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Updated•14 days ago
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Updated•14 days ago
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Comment 3•18 hours ago
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Thanks for the feedback. This has been discussed with our product manager, UX designer and the engineer who implemented this and it seems the only feasible solution is to go back to having the mute button overlaying the favicon but only for horizontal tabs.
From my understanding, this issue with the sound playing or mute button shifting annoyingly seems to occur mostly with you tube/other video sites that have sound suddenly start or stop. We'll monitor feedback on this and will look into whether we should revisit the design after other priorities have been addressed.
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