357479 - Allow one-click resorting of the tab bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Ventnor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061019 Firefox/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061019 Firefox/3.0a1

I haven't been able to find a bug similar to this yet, but if so please dupe this one.

One of the features that caught my eye on the Firefox Feature Brainstorming wiki page was being able to sort tabs by a criterion such as name, time etc. I spent about an hour roughly developing this feature and think it's ready to be put on trunk.

Dupe police: if you find a similar bug please dupe this so I know where to put my patch. Otherwise please indicate here and I'll put my patch here. Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't think this is a dup.  But I also don't think this feature would be useful to enough users to justify putting it on the trunk; you might have better luck making this an extension.

Comment 2

[Michael Ventnor]

Attachment: Patch

I don't know... Tab drag & drop was considered only something meant for an extension. Plus if tab browsing is meant to be one of Firefox's most powerful features, there should be this kind of feature to allow organisation in our current tab browsing implementation.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't know... Tab drag & drop was considered only something meant for an
> extension.

It was developed as an extension first, which allowed people to see whether they found it useful. I agree with Jesse, I'm not sure that this feature would be considered useful by most people.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

The nice thing about adding a drag-and-drop feature is that it doesn't many the UI any more complicated for people who don't try to drag.  Adding this feature would make a menu longer.

I think "sort by hostname / path" would be more useful than "sort by title".  They're not the same because some sites (Google, Wikipedia) put the site name at the end of the title while others (AllTheWeb, Slashdot) put the site name at the beginning of the title.

Does "sort by time created" do anything other than reset the order to the initial order, before any dragging or sorting?

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is a great idea for extension experimentation, but we likely won't add this by default in-product.