526942 - Try to sync tabs when viewing remote tabs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Sync, defect, P1)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Instead of waiting for the idle timer to hit, we could try syncing tabs immediately to get the most up-to-date information.

This is separate from the fact that the desktop client might not have synced tabs yet, but assuming the data is there, we should grab it.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Don't we have a bug on something like this already?  But we should definitely sync tabs every time we open the tabs page, with maybe a 30 second fudge factor.

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

I had a quick prototype to show Jay where it just synchronously has the tab engine sync on page load, and at least on os x fennec, it could sync in 130ms.

Not sure if we would want to show a list of tabs and async fetch then reload the page or just block the page with a spinner if it hasn't checked in the last 30 seconds.

Some logic needs to change as right now sync engines expect a lastModified time to be set by the service before syncing, and we probably don't want to fetch info/collections and storage/tabs. ?newer=<lastSync> should work

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/rev/c9fb14ef6d53
Try fetching tabs when loading the remote tabs view and if the sync got new tabs, reload the page.