727335 - Add Unity Quicklist to Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Michael Hall]

Attachment: Chromium's Quicklist options

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/16.0.912.77 Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Right-click the Firefox icon in the Ubuntu Unity Dash


Actual results:

Got a menu with only "Firefox Web Browser" and "Quit"


Expected results:

I would like to see options for "Open a New Window", "Open Private Browsing Mode", and "Open Profile Manager".

Comment 1

[Michael Hall]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Quicklists

Comment 2

[JeffreyDecker]

I will be working on adding these options

Comment 3

[JeffreyDecker]

Does anyone know where I could actually add the quick list options, i.e. the file the that I would need to work out of to add these options?

Comment 4

[JeffreyDecker]

Does anyone know where I could actually add the quick list options, i.e. the file the that I would need to work out of to add these options?

Comment 5

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

It looks like these options go in a .desktop file. There's a .desktop file in the tree here: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/linux/rpm/mozilla.desktop but I think most distributions create their own, so you might need to submit a fix directly to the Ubuntu package. Try talking to these folks:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Looks like the relevant file in Ubuntu's firefox package source is:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox-beta.head/view/head:/debian/firefox.desktop.in

Comment 7

[Michael Hall]

http://mhall119.com/2012/02/contributing-to-unity-for-non-developers-quicklists/ has a step-by-step guide for adding a Quicklist.  Some of them are specific to Ubuntu's development model, but step #2 has the relevant changes needed.  

Note that there is now an XDG specification for this, which Ubuntu Unity should recognize as of version 5.6 (in Ubuntu 12.04), and will also make these action available to other desktop environments that implement it.

Comment 8

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Chatted with Jeffrey about this on IRC -- it sounds like if there's anything to be done here, it's on the Ubuntu side.  So, this is INVALID as a Mozilla bug.

Comment 9

[Chris Coulson]

Just to clarify as well, it's not really even possible to support these options with static quicklist entries in Unity, as static entries rely on having a command line option that does the same thing in all contexts. "-ProfileManager" and "-private" will behave differently depending on whether there is already a Firefox instance open or not, which makes them unsuitable for use by a static quicklist entry in Unity. I would generally be opposed to an "Open Profile Manager" entry in any case, although we can perhaps revisit the private browsing option when Firefox supports per-window private browsing modes.

We already have "New Window" btw...

Comment 10

[scientes]

It would be cool if we could have drag-and-drop tabs, to a launcher (like unity or gnome-shell - global application menu for gnome-shell https://lwn.net/Articles/490260/), like i've heard IE9 does.

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hmm, i tried to paste the url of the video in here, but Microsoft's web pages are so broken it's impossible to link directly to it (except their silverlie version)