737693 - add support for tabbrowser.visibleTabs to the Tabs API

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

currently require('tabs').length reports 500+ tabs when i only have ~50. that's because all the rest are in groups.

the tabs api should find some way to make a distinction between tabs you can navigate to in the currently visible set of tabs, and those that are hidden.

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

I think Panorama is being moved to an add-on, so I don't think this is worth implementing now.

Comment 2

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

if we did implement this we should simply make a isVisible(thing) method, which a third party module can do easily, so again I don't think it is worth it.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Yeah, looks like bug 836758

Comment 4

[blackwind]

Yeah, Panorama will be removed at some indeterminate point, but with the glacial pace at which these things often move, it could be years (if not decades) before that occurs; meanwhile, e10s is coming, and I require an isHidden/isVisible property to migrate my add-on to the high-level APIs in preparation.

Unless someone can point to definitive confirmation that Panorama will be removed before e10s ships, this bug needs to be reopened and addressed.

Comment 5

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

(In reply to blackwind from comment #4)
> Yeah, Panorama will be removed at some indeterminate point, but with the
> glacial pace at which these things often move, it could be years (if not
> decades) before that occurs; meanwhile, e10s is coming, and I require an
> isHidden/isVisible property to migrate my add-on to the high-level APIs in
> preparation.
> 
> Unless someone can point to definitive confirmation that Panorama will be
> removed before e10s ships, this bug needs to be reopened and addressed.

Why the needinfo? This is still wontfix. If you have a specific issue with migrating an SDK add-on to work with e10s, please log a new bug.