757404 - Provide Add-On Bar where extensions can add buttons to primary UI

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1
Build ID: 20120521030525

Steps to reproduce:

Currently there's no where for Add-Ons to add presence on the primary UI, an add-on bar would sort out this problem. Users should be able to toggle the display of the bar via Fennec preferences.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Ian/Madhava, thoughts? Wont-fix?

Comment 2

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

We're looking to build a similar sort of functionality into the browser's Action Bar (the title bar), so that Add-ons can appear in the overflow menu. When space allows, like on tablets, they will also be editable so that add-ons can be moved into the title bar if desired. 

I don't think we want to get into extra bars, though. There just isn't room for more chrome, particularly on phones. Anything we can do to work within a single-bar UI that frees up screen space for browsing is preferred.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

See bug 734877 for more ideas