636461 - Tabgroup which does not have a name, containing only App tabs is lost on entering panorama

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Jithin Emmanuel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110222 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110222 Firefox/4.0b12pre

If I close all the tabs in a tabgroup except app tabs and enters panorama view then that tabgroup disappeears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a tabgroup with only app tabs.
2. enter panorama 
3.
Actual Results:  
Tab group disappears.

Expected Results:  
Tab group should stay.

Comment 1

[Kevin Hanes]

Can you provide a screen shot? I can enter and exit Panorama with a group comprised of only app tabs just fine.

Comment 2

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

It's important for the tab group to have a title. Untitled groups are discarded when closing/re-opening panorama.

Comment 3

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Some people arrange their tabs in groups without giving them titles, because the tab thumbnails provide visual clues as to the grouping. If those disappear, it's sad-making.

Comment 4

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Just to clarify: empty untitled groups are discarded. Groups with tabs are _never_ closed.

Comment 5

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Attachment: Screencast showing tab disappearing.

I am not able to take a screen shot as it just disappears so attaching a screen cast.
Tim is right. if tabgroup has a name is does not disappear.

When I create tag groups initially I normally don't give names and I move around tabgroups(keeping personal tabs in one group and work tabs in multiple groups) a lot.

Comment 6

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

So to clarify: this behavior is by design. If you dislike this behavior you should probably change this bug (title) to reflect this and open the discussion.

Comment 7

[Jithin Emmanuel]

Here I am left with a tabgroup with no name, and just some app tabs, and I chose to enter panaorama, with no intention of closing the tab group, but it got closed. Now I am forced to create a new tab group and continue.

Why not have the same behavior with or without a name for the tab group?

Comment 8

[Kevin Hanes]

This behavior is by design. Our reasoning is thus: if we don't close tabs when they are empty, it becomes far too easy to clutter up your UI and makes it a pain to manually close all of your empty groups. We have different behaviors for named groups as you've made an explicit action to name them and thus make them more important. 

To avoid this behavior, you can name your group, not close the last tab, or not re-enter Panorama when you have emptied the group. Sorry for the confusion.