877807 - Make clicking on New Tab Opened text take user to that tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Walter K.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130525 Firefox/24.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130525062525

Steps to reproduce:

Long press on a link and select Open Link in New Tab or Open Link in Private Tab.


Actual results:

When FF is configured to open new tabs in the background, "New tab opened" text appears on screen for a few seconds.


Expected results:

Make "New tab opened" text take user to the new tab when clicked.

Comment 1

[Teodora Vermesan (:TeoVermesan)]

Can you please tell what device and firefox version you are using?
Can you try using Nightly build for Android? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Android toasts are not interactive by design: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html

Comment 3

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

But we have Super Toasts (TM)!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872388

I actually think comment 0 is a reasonable idea considering the number of people who wanted "new tab" to open in the foreground.

Comment 4

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

(In reply to Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail]) from comment #3)
> But we have Super Toasts (TM)!
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872388
> 
> I actually think comment 0 is a reasonable idea considering the number of
> people who wanted "new tab" to open in the foreground.

Yes, this is a job for Super Toast (TM)! Let's see what we can cook up.

Comment 5

[Walter K.]

(In reply to Teodora Vermesan (:TeoVermesan) from comment #1)
> Can you please tell what device and firefox version you are using?
> Can you try using Nightly build for Android? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

I use Nightly on Nexus 7.

Comment 6

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