507816 - No way to distinguish the currently selected tab in the All-tabs Preview panel

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090731 Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090731 Minefield/3.6a1pre

Currently the All-tabs preview panel displays thumbnails of all the current tabs. The thumbnails are highlighted on hover and on focus. However, the default theme does not tell you which tab is the selected tab. This can be an issue when a user has many tabs open and a number of them look the same in thumbnail view.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set browser.allTabs.previews to true.
2. Open several tabs.
3. Click on AllTabs button.
Actual Results:  
All tab previews on AllTabs preview pane have the same format.

Expected Results:  
AllTabs preview pane should show which tab is currently selected.

In skinning the AllTabs pane for my themes I was unable to find a way to show the selected tab's preview in a distinct format.

Comment 1

[AKIHIRO Misaki (a.k.a Kuden)]

confirmed with trunk/Windows 2000.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Code removed in bug 670684.