Closed Bug 760359 Opened 13 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Show the current tab group in UI

Categories

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: surkov, Unassigned)

Details

Otherwise sometimes it's hard to say where are you. One option I can see is to append tab group name to the title like "Enter Bug: Firefox ('Main' tab group).
We did something similar before but removed it intentionally. Please see bug 682996.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
(In reply to Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] from comment #1) > We did something similar before but removed it intentionally. Please see bug > 682996. Ok, but I don't see there that everybody agrees no UI at all is needed for this feature. It seems there's a problem and it should be fixed this or that way (based on amount of comments requesting it) rather than marking the bug as invalid.
(In reply to alexander :surkov from comment #2) > Ok, but I don't see there that everybody agrees no UI at all is needed for > this feature. It seems there's a problem and it should be fixed this or that > way (based on amount of comments requesting it) rather than marking the bug > as invalid. We removed it from the title bar because that was too confusing. We probably wouldn't mind re-adding it if we find the right place in the UI for it. That proved to be very hard as UI tends to get less and less. Agreed, I was too quick marking this as invalid, the bug summary is about "anywhere" in the UI, not the title bar specifically.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
I'd suggest 1) the current tab group in panorama view should easy visible. Now blue border is used around the active tab and if tab group is small and there are many tab groups then it's not easy to see the current tab group. Maybe the border around tab group or highlighted tab group title works well. 2) If tab group title statically appended to the tab title is not a way to go then maybe it's worth to change a title from tab title to tab group title for a short time when you were switched between groups. It's not really necessary when you pick up the tab group from panorama view but if you were switched to another tab group when you entered URL and 'switch tab' feature triggered then it could be a good solution. Actually the main problem is 'switch tab' feature that makes me lost where I am.
Panorama has been removed from Firefox 45, currently in Beta and scheduled for release on March 7th. As such, I'm closing all existing Panorama bugs. If you are still using Panorama, you will see a deprecation message in Firefox 44, and when 45 is released your tab group data will be migrated to bookmarks, with a folder for each group. There are also a few addons offering similar functionality. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal for more info. We're removing Panorama because it has extremely low usage (about 0.01% of users), and has a large number of bugs and usability issues. The cost of fixing all those issues is far too high to justify, and so we'll instead be focusing our time and energy on improving other parts of Firefox.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox → Firefox Graveyard
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