Closed Bug 718680 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Tab group names inaccessible until panorama button is pressed.

Categories

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

8 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 697959

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111115183813

Steps to reproduce:

Using an addon (pentadactyl) that accesses the names of tabgroups, I restart the browser.


Actual results:

At first when trying to access the tabgroups, the addon can't see the names:
http://i.imgur.com/1WcUn.png

Once I've pressed the tabgroups view button http://i.imgur.com/eWKYh.png the names are accessible to the addon http://i.imgur.com/ZislP.png



Expected results:

The tabgroup names should be accessible without the overhead of actually going into TabGroup manipulation via some straightforward public API.  The simple idea of being able to segregate tabs into groups should be separated from the complicated tabgroup editor.  This complication may stifle other add-ons from being able to efficiently use tabgroups.
Component: Untriaged → Panorama
QA Contact: untriaged → panorama
The add-on could use TabView._initFrame(function () { ... }) to make sure Panorama is initialized and then read the tab group names. That's a solution for now.

We're working on bringing a TabGroups API to the browser that cares about the storage but not about the view (i.e. Panorama). You can track progress in bug 697959.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Firefox Graveyard
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