346569 - should we animate the all tabs button when when I open a folder of several bookmarks, and i have many tabs already open?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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should we animate the all tabs button when when I open a folder of several bookmarks, and i have many tabs already open?

spun off from bug #345868 comment #17

I wrote:

"what should happen when I open a folder of <n> bookmarks, and i have <n> tabs
already open?

should I get the notification that something was opened off screen, even though
a new tab was not created?"

simon writes:

"That depends on what we want to achieve with the flash notification in the
first place:
* only note about new tabs being added off-screen
* note about all sort of stuff going on in off-screen tabs

The second (more comprehensive) alternative would probably not only include a
notification for automatically loading new URLs in off-screen tabs, but also a
notification about tabs being closed off-screen, tabs being refreshed/reloaded
off-screen, etc. Not sure where that'd be to stop...

Then there's the issue then that users might think that all tabs are replaced
with the bookmark folder while technically it's only their content which is
replaced. OTOH I doubt that many will notice the (missing) flashing at all.

Anyway since this is an edge case to an edge case (loading a big bookmark group
while having a lot of tabs open) I'd not worry too much about it and probably
go with the technically simpler solution we've got now (at least for Firefox
2)."

Comment 1

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

We currently flash the right scroll button which seems enough indication that new tabs were open offscreen.