716271 - Add "Tabs From Other Computers" to the Firefox button's History menu

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Bug 714281 hides the "all tabs" button unless the tab strip overflows. This makes "Tabs From Other Computers" hard to access on Windows. You can still find it on the classic menu bar, which can be toggled with Alt, but users may not know this. We should add "Tabs From Other Computers" to the Firefox button's History menu and probably remove it from the "all tabs" menu, since this doesn't provide a consistent experience anymore.

Comment 1

[Sam Hanes]

Seconded. I spent five minutes searching the new UI for it before giving up and using the classic History menu. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to look on the "All Tabs" list, which I never see anyway because I have Tab Mix Plus configured for multi-row.

If this is still unassigned when I get home in a couple days I'll throw together a patch; it should be pretty simple.

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Would adding a button for "tabs from other computers" to the toolbox palette also be possible?

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Jetpack Bugmaster) from comment #2)
> Would adding a button for "tabs from other computers" to the toolbox palette
> also be possible?

Yes, it's possible. Whether we should do it is another question...

Comment 5

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Comment on attachment 588422 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Review of attachment 588422 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=me. please inform Docs, Support and Sync teams, so that they're aware of the change and can be ready when they start getting feedback about the entry being missing in the old location.

Comment 6

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Wait, it will be missing from the classic history menu?

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Tracy Walker [:tracy] from comment #6)
> Wait, it will be missing from the classic history menu?

No. The point of this bug is to treat both history menus consistently.

Comment 8

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich) from comment #5)
> r=me. please inform Docs, Support and Sync teams, so that they're aware of
> the change and can be ready when they start getting feedback about the entry
> being missing in the old location.

Adding user-doc-needed. Somebody is watching [e-mail], right...?

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #7)
> (In reply to Tracy Walker [:tracy] from comment #6)
> > Wait, it will be missing from the classic history menu?
> 
> No. The point of this bug is to treat both history menus consistently.

ok, Dietrich's comment that it would be missing threw me.

Comment 10

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/20a5102d00ab

Comment 11

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified on Win 7 on M-C

Comment 13

[soshial]

May I ask what decision that was made? Is "tabs from other computers" now treated consistently in both types of menus: being present in both history menus? Thanks.

Comment 14

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to soshial from comment #13)
> Is "tabs from other computers" now
> treated consistently in both types of menus: being present in both history
> menus?

Yes.

Comment 15

[Sergey]

Moving UI button element to menu is not a decision,
pls satisfy https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718147

Comment 16

[u375042]

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #7)
> (In reply to Tracy Walker [:tracy] from comment #6)
> > Wait, it will be missing from the classic history menu?
> 
> No. The point of this bug is to treat both history menus consistently.

I agree!

Comment 17

[u375042]

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #0)
> Bug 714281 hides the "all tabs" button unless the tab strip overflows. This
> makes "Tabs From Other Computers" hard to access on Windows. You can still
> find it on the classic menu bar, which can be toggled with Alt, but users
> may not know this. We should add "Tabs From Other Computers" to the Firefox
> button's History menu and probably remove it from the "all tabs" menu, since
> this doesn't provide a consistent experience anymore.

This is very annonying since I no longer use the clasic menu bar, I wish other parts of the clasic where in the Firefox button but that is for another report.

Comment 18

[u375042]

(In reply to Sam Hanes from comment #1)
> Seconded. I spent five minutes searching the new UI for it before giving up
> and using the classic History menu. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to
> look on the "All Tabs" list, which I never see anyway because I have Tab Mix
> Plus configured for multi-row.
> 
> If this is still unassigned when I get home in a couple days I'll throw
> together a patch; it should be pretty simple.

The description on how to opne these should be in a FAQ sheet and or main site on how to use Firefox Sync.

Comment 19

[u375042]

So I am a noob to the entire bug reporting scene, obviously by this comment. I see that there is a patch. When should one expect it to be implemented? is there any reference that in the future when looking at other bug reports that indicate when one would expect it to be implemented either in the release, beta, aurora, or even the nightly-builds?

Comment 20

[u375042]

(In reply to Sam Hanes from comment #1)
> Seconded. I spent five minutes searching the new UI for it before giving up
> and using the classic History menu. It wouldn't even have occurred to me to
> look on the "All Tabs" list, which I never see anyway because I have Tab Mix
> Plus configured for multi-row.
> 
> If this is still unassigned when I get home in a couple days I'll throw
> together a patch; it should be pretty simple.

I knew this was possible how ever I have learned though with browser.allTabs.previews set to true it goes away.

Comment 21

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Richard from comment #19)
> So I am a noob to the entire bug reporting scene, obviously by this comment.
> I see that there is a patch. When should one expect it to be implemented?

It is landed, and will be in Firefox 12. It's fixed in Aurora and Nightly right now, and Beta very soon.

> is there any reference that in the future when looking at other bug reports
> that indicate when one would expect it to be implemented either in the
> release, beta, aurora, or even the nightly-builds?

Look at the Target Milestone dropdown.

> I knew this was possible how ever I have learned though with
> browser.allTabs.previews set to true it goes away.

Dão, would you take a look at Bug 734760? I have no idea about any of this UI, nor do I have easy access to a Windows machine…

Comment 22

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #8)

> Adding user-doc-needed. Somebody is watching [e-mail], right...?

Some people, yes, although there's nobody directly responsible for any kind of user documentation.

Services is — like everyone — buried under mountains of work, so nothing will get done unless someone steps up with updated docs that just need review, or explicit instructions about what docs need to be updated, and gets the work scheduled on our roadmap.