686839 - Investigate Windows 8 metro tile integration

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Investigate providing more information or functionality from our Firefox metro tile. 

I'm not sure of the best thing to do here, but perhaps we can have some discussions on possibilities.

Comment 1

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

One idea is to have the tabs that the user has open be scrolled through periodically.  

Also you can have a number on the bottom right or glyph so other ideas for what those can do are welcome.

Comment 2

[Sav]

Not too sure you can do much with the tile, other than show a number for the number of app tabs that have gone into that blue state from an update. Showing the tabs will look sloppy, and there may be privacy issues.

Comment 3

[Martin Anderson]

Here are the various tile templates available in Windows 8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/Hh761491

Comment 4

[Yuan Wang(:Yuan) – Mobile Firefox Design Lead]

Some possible use cases about live tiles:
1. Notifications of download progress; 
2. Notifications from IM or mail sites, for example: the number of new mails,new chat msg. 
3. Integrating with chat functions

The 2 and 3 ones can be applied on secondary tiles. If the pinned site has chat/msg functions, tile can show the live updates.

Comment 5

[Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]]

Windows 8 does not allow metro style enabled desktop browsers to have live tiles at this time, I'm marking this as resolved/invalid.