437570 - Indicate if a tab is auto-reloading/redirecting when in another tab.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Laxminarayan G Kamath A]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008052902 Firefox/2.0.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008052902 Firefox/2.0.0

When a warning is issued in another tab than is being currently browsed, indicate it in some way. A slowly blinking [once a second or once in 2 seconds] question mark next to the favicon could probably be good enough. If the tab is out of view, ( so many tabs that they are scrolling) then issue a "sticky" warning. i.e. show the warning across tabs that can take me to that tab. Well, these are just my suggestions, just give some indication.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open more than one tab
2. In Preferences>Advanced>General, set "Warn me when web sitestry to redirect or reload the page" to true.
3. In one tab open a site which reloads/ redirects.
4. Go to another tab. 

Actual Results:  
I had absolutely no way of knowing that there another tab is warning me about a self-reloading/redirecting page.

Expected Results:  
Some kind of indication or warning. See "Details" next to summary.

Boo.

Comment 1

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

An indication could be (a little) useful. But it should be very discreet. Not a warning. Otherwise, we would have dozens of tabs flashing everywhere, disturbing us from our current tab.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

The requirements would be : 

The indication is noticed by the user only when the user is looking for the presence or absence of this info.