623345 - browser.panorama.animate_zoom should be exposed as a preference

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110105 Firefox/4.0b9pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110105 Firefox/4.0b9pre

Panorama access is MUCH faster with browser.panorama.animate_zoom set to false.  Rather than waiting 2 seconds for the animation to complete (twice - zooming in and zooming out), I can do a 3 finger swipe, and immediately find the next tab to switch to.  There should be a preference checkbox to expose this functionality.  It makes panorama much nicer to use.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  browser.panorama.animate_zoom is true
2.  Panorama access is slow
3.  browser.panorama.animate_zoom is false
4.  Panorama access is fast, and more pleasant to use.
Actual Results:  
Setting browser.panorama.animate_zoom to false makes Panorama much easier to work with, because you don't have to wait through animations all the time.

Expected Results:  
Panorama is fast and unobtrusive.

Comment 1

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Do you mean it should be an option in the preferences window? If so, I think the appropriate component is Preferences.

Comment 2

[Michael]

Yes.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Closing as Panorama was removed from Firefox.