262386 - tabs show thumbnails of their webpages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Schack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

The only web browser that supports this behavior is OmniWeb 5. For an example
screenshot in OmniWeb: http://www.omnigroup.com/images/images-5/features/tabs.png

This should definitely be optional because the thumbnails take more space. I
understand that this is an extreme request.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
In a new Firefox web browser window, pull the File menu down to New Tab.

Actual Results:  
Each tab shows the website favicon and name.

Expected Results:  
Each tab should show a thumbnail of the webpage it contains.

Comment 1

[Brian Schack]

Similar to bug 109196.

Comment 2

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Favicons are the de-facto way to visually identify tabs, and different methods to do so are a great example of features that can be implemented by add-ons. This is covered with different implementations by add-ons like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-preview/ , https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/?src=ss , etc.