678770 - long tap on a bookmarks folder should offer "open all in tabs"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

When I long tap on a folder of bookmarks, the context menu I get looks like this:

<Folder Name>
Open Link in New Tab
Share Link
Exit
Remove
Add to Home Screen

Selecting Open Link in New Tab results in a Launch Application dialog which says "This link needs ot be opened wiht an application. OK | Cancel"

The item should be labeled "Open All in Tabs" like on the desktop version of Firefox and when a user selects that, it should load all of those pages in background tabs. 

Also, "Share Link" should probably be hidden since we're talking about a folder full of links, not a single link here. 

Without the easy ability to pop a bunch of bookmarks into background tabs, Fennec cannot easily replace desktop Firefox even for my most casual usage. I'm just one data point, but this is a pretty powerful feature from Firefox that's simply missing in Fennec and it wouldn't complicate the UI in any major way.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

It's not really nice to open 10 tabs at once on a phone if it doesn't have a lot of memory. I usually keep the amount of tabs that I have open, limited to not more than 5 on my LG Optimus Black.

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Martijn Wargers [:mw22] (QA - IRC nick: mw22) from comment #1)
> It's not really nice to open 10 tabs at once on a phone if it doesn't have a
> lot of memory. I usually keep the amount of tabs that I have open, limited
> to not more than 5 on my LG Optimus Black.

We could load the tabs on demand, like we do for restored tabs on startup.

Comment 4

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Shyam Murarka expressed an interest in this bug; assigning it.  Shyam, please let me know if you have any questions about this bug, or if you would like to work on a different one instead.

Comment 5

[Shyam Prasad Murarka]

Hi Matt,

So I need to do the following things right?
1. Change string to "Open All in Tabs".
2. Remove the "Share Link" option.

What did you mean by "we could load the tabs on demand"? Should I be asking for individual confirmation of each link like its done for restored tabs on startup?

Thanks.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component