597681 - Improve switch from Tab Candy/Panorama expanded thumbnail to (empty) real content tab when a not-loaded tab is selected in Tab Candy/Panorama

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; fr; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
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Find a better transition from Tab Candy/Panorama expanded thumbnail to real content tab when a not-loaded tab is selected in Tab Candy/Panorama.

The problem, is that if a tab haven't been loaded, Tab Candy/Panorama transform-expand the thumbnail and then we have a transition to ... a blank and loading page.

We should at least find a better transition to a loading tab.

Not sure if that is a Tab Candy or Tabbed Browser Bug ?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

Maybe (yes, maybe ; and with all the debate in bug 544818, bug 578028, bug 597673, can't find the one for implementing the UpdateIcon/circular page loading progress pie), we should think again how we show loading progress in the browser...

Maybe a solution could be to add a progress meter on to of the thumbnail in tab Candy until the tab is enought loaded. Hide the progress meter and then expand to the real content of the tab.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Mandil (:NicolasWeb)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe a solution could be to add a progress meter on to of the thumbnail in tab
> Candy until the tab is enought loaded. Hide the progress meter and then expand
> to the real content of the tab.

Read on top of the thumbnail.
Hiding the progress meter could be progressive too, for beauty ;-)

Comment 3

[Ian Gilman [:iangilman]]

I like how Safari handles this (showing a dimmed version of the full-size thumbnail until the page has loaded enough, then fading into it).

I don't think we're going to be able to get to this in time for FF4.0, however.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Panorama has been removed from Firefox 45, currently in Beta and scheduled for release on March 7th. As such, I'm closing all existing Panorama bugs.

If you are still using Panorama, you will see a deprecation message in Firefox 44, and when 45 is released your tab group data will be migrated to bookmarks, with a folder for each group. There are also a few addons offering similar functionality.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal for more info.

We're removing Panorama because it has extremely low usage (about 0.01% of users), and has a large number of bugs and usability issues. The cost of fixing all those issues is far too high to justify, and so we'll instead be focusing our time and energy on improving other parts of Firefox.