556724 - Firefox should show thumbnail previews of SVG images in Windows Explorer

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Tumath]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2

It would be useful for users if SVG images are shown in thumbnail previews in Windows Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[u88484]

What does windows explorer have to do with Firefox?

Comment 2

[Josh Tumath]

Firefox isn't simply a web browser. It is also used for opening files like SVGs on a user's computer. It would be useful for that purpose.

Comment 3

[Rob Arnold [:robarnold]]

This seems like something an extension or separate application should do. Shell extensions run in the context of Windows Explorer (and thus all the time) so I don't think most folks would appreciate running a copy of Firefox/Gecko so that they can just view thumbnails of SVG (which are not terribly popular anyways, and most who have them have an svg viewer like Illustrator/Inkscape).

Comment 4

[Josh Tumath]

Sorry. I wasn't sure where else the file it under.

Comment 5

[Rob Arnold [:robarnold]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry. I wasn't sure where else the file it under.

Well I'm not sure there is a place - I don't think this is something that Mozilla would devote resources to. It would be interesting if we had a place for "Addon Ideas" but there isn't afaik.

Comment 6

[Chris Cunningham]

This is tied to bug 455086 and arguably bug 160883 (depending on whether that's construed as a general bug or a SeaMonkey-specific one). It isn't strictly a blocker (or dependent) on either, but if one is fixed the other should be as well.

Comment 7

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

The taskbar preview code isn't part of shell integration so moving to widget where most of that code lives.