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Bug 551849
(pinnedtabs)
Opened 14 years ago
Updated 28 days ago
[meta] Pinned tabs
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(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P3)
Firefox
Tabbed Browser
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(Reporter: faaborg, Unassigned)
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(Depends on 16 open bugs)
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(Keywords: meta)
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This project covers the design and creation of a Firefox Home Tab, a small persistent tab placed at the far left of the tab strip that will serve as the user's home on the Web. The plan is for this interface to be locally hosted, customizable, and personalized to the needs of each individual user. The second aspect of this project is allowing users to create "App Tabs," small persistent tabs placed to the right of the Home Tab that contain home pages or Web applications that the user very regularly interacts with. App tabs can not be accidentally closed, and they do get lost when viewing a large number of documents in separate tabs. Wiki page with more information about the project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Home_Tab
Comment 1•14 years ago
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This should depend upon bug 544819 - Create a basic Home Tab linking to the current Home Page: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544819 A compelling usability issue: Should the Home Tab and/or the App Tabs be pinned to the far left of the tab strip so that when the scrollbars appear for tab overflow, they still remain on the left of the tab strip and are not scrolled out of the visible range? My humble opinion is that they should be pinned to the far left, since they are meant to be easily accessible and persistent at all times. (Alex, I think you meant to write 'they do NOT get lost when viewing a large number of documents in separate tabs.') There is a very recent extension that implements this type of tab pinning: Tab Utilities - https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/59961 I have tested it out, and the 'pin tab' feature works quite well, although the pinned tabs should probably be wider in the final Firefox implementation.
Comment 2•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #0) > App tabs can not > be accidentally closed, and they do get lost when viewing a large number of > documents in separate tabs. Alex did indeed mean "[…]do NOT get lost while viewing a large number[…]", app tabs are meant to keep their position. :)
Comment 3•14 years ago
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> My humble opinion is that they should be pinned to the far left, since they are
> meant to be easily accessible and persistent at all times. (Alex, I think you
> meant to write 'they do NOT get lost when viewing a large number of documents
> in separate tabs.')
Most certainly agree.
Comment 4•14 years ago
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I just hope it will have option to set refresh frequency. Some sites, like GMail, require to be constantly reloading to see newest added contet to them. On the other hand, sites like forums, need to be "frozen", even after colsing and opening FX again. Talking about GMail; a new messeges counter would be nice.
I filed bug 536267 a while ago (when I was a bit more inexperienced with how things work here, as you probably can tell from my wording). I think we should provide some way for sites to detect if they are being displayed in App Tab mode, to allow them to adjust their navigation, for example.
Comment 6•14 years ago
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Will App Tabs be have isolated storage (session state, cookies, HTML5 storage) away from regular tabs and other App Tabs enabling the functionality of Prism/site-specific browsers?
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Comment 7•14 years ago
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>Will App Tabs be have isolated storage (session state, cookies, HTML5 storage)
>away from regular tabs and other App Tabs enabling the functionality of
>Prism/site-specific browsers?
Not initially, however we could potentially pick up this functionality in a later release after we have electrolysis landed.
Comment 8•14 years ago
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Is there a bug for UI to pin/unpin App tabs?
Comment 9•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #8) > Is there a bug for UI to pin/unpin App tabs? see bug 574487.
Updated•14 years ago
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Flags: in-litmus?
Comment 10•14 years ago
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Is it expected that the "close other tabs" context menu item is not available when you have focus on an app tab?
Comment 11•14 years ago
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Marcia, I believe it was changed in bug 577121 to be desired behavior for app tabs, so yeah.
Comment 12•14 years ago
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For which milestone is Home Tab targeted?
Comment 13•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #12) I presume beta5+ seeing as how it doesn't yet have an owner and there isn't a clear indication of how it's supposed to act. I thought the Mozilla Labs challenge was supposed to decide the direction http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/winter09/
Comment 14•14 years ago
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No, that challenge was for post Firefox 4 Home Tab.
Updated•14 years ago
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Updated•14 years ago
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Comment 15•14 years ago
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why app tabs need an address bar?
Comment 16•14 years ago
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(In reply to comment #15) > why app tabs need an address bar? see bug 585445 for that discussion
Depends on: 597575
Updated•13 years ago
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Comment 17•13 years ago
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As app tabs finnally landed in firefox 4, and I find the new about:home clear, polish but not very useful, I have drawn in a schematic way what I think would be an useful welcome/home page to be always displayed in an app tab. I took some inspiration from fennec welcome page and chrome's home. I have some web programming experience and a few with mozilla, so I could try to make an addon if this bug has not been abandoned.
Comment 18•13 years ago
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(In reply to comment #17) > Created attachment 524180 [details] > Proposal for home tab structure > > As app tabs finnally landed in firefox 4, and I find the new about:home > clear, polish but not very useful, I have drawn in a schematic way what I > think would be an useful welcome/home page to be always displayed in an app > tab. I took some inspiration from fennec welcome page and chrome's home. > I have some web programming experience and a few with mozilla, so I could > try to make an addon if this bug has not been abandoned. I would like to see an addon of your schematic designed as I am running the nightly build and there is still nothing about the home tab yet. I like your design and would like to see what it looks like in firefox.
Comment 19•13 years ago
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I am a bit irritated if the work on this bug is in progress or not. What is the current status? Will there be a Home Tab in Firefox within the next 1 or 2 releases or not? Or are there any test builds?
Comment 20•13 years ago
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(In reply to comment #19) > I am a bit irritated if the work on this bug is in progress or not. > What is the current status? Will there be a Home Tab in Firefox within the > next 1 or 2 releases or not? Or are there any test builds? The latest ux build occasionally has this and can be obtained from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-ux
Comment 21•13 years ago
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how to change the url for home tab? if I set the homepage, both homepage and home tab are opened. I only want my home page opened in hometab when firefox start.
Updated•13 years ago
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Depends on: 749477
Comment 22•12 years ago
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Iteration 3 of Home Tab Mockup : https://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/files/aboutHome-prototype-i03/aboutHome-prototype-i03.html
Updated•5 years ago
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Flags: in-litmus?
Summary: [meta][project] Home Tab and App Tabs → [meta] Pinned tabs
Updated•5 years ago
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Updated•5 years ago
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Alias: pinnedtabs
Updated•4 years ago
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Component: General → Tabbed Browser
Updated•4 years ago
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Priority: -- → P3
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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