Closed Bug 582962 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

AppTabs eliminate notifications from the webpage

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Platform:
All
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 577096

People

(Reporter: william, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 Many websites that are candidates for apptabs use title text to notify the user of an event such as new mail or a new chat message. Since app tabs hide the title text, it is now impossible to see whether anything has happened without actually viewing the tab. As an easy fix, I would suggest making the background of an apptab orange whenever the title text changes. It may be a good idea to make this configurable so if there is an apptab where changing title text is not a notification,, it can be disabled. A better, long term fix would be to create a new API for browser notifications, accessible by webpages. Probably also with permissions like the location api. However, this may take a while to be adopted. Reproducible: Always I set the severity to major because I believe that it is a serious regression which eliminates most of the usefulness of apptabs.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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