412195 - tab overflow animation difficult to notice (fades out too quickly)

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Simon Bünzli]

While the tab overflow animation lasts 1.5 seconds, only the first 0.3 ms are used for an opacity over 0.5. That's way too quickly to be really noticed, especially when your eyes are still focused on the link you've just middle-clicked.

I'd propose to
- either invert the animation (fade in to orange and keep the All Tabs button orange until the user selects a tab from the overflow area or scrolls manually)
- or keep it at a bright orange for 1 s and fade away in the remaining 0.5 s (or maybe another 1 s).

Might be related to bug 348674 and could be fixed at least according to the second proposal when converting the animation to an APNG in bug 404774.

Comment 1

[Marcos Silvano]

Simon, is this issue still related to the current version (9.0.1) of Firefox? If not, maybe this could be closed.

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

The animation still fades fairly quickly. Given that there's been no action here and no further change requests, this might not really be much of an issue after all, though. I certainly don't mind this not getting implemented, given that myself I've replaced the overflow handling with a less busy and more predictable alternative.

Comment 3

[Marcos Silvano]

Simon, do you mind if I close this bug?

Comment 4

[Rogério Gonçalves]

Simon. I will check this RESOLVED. If you think this still matters for you, you can change its status. Okay?

Comment 5

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

I think there is room to make improvements here.