908569 - Remove MostVisited page from History tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, defect)

Description

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

It feels redundant to have "Most visited" and "Most recent" pages. As per UX decision, its better to remove "Most visited" page.

Comment 1

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

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Ian wanted to put this in nightly for 2 days, and if people like it, remove all bits and pieces needed.

This patch:
1. hides the most recent page.
2. removes the title as it won't be needed.
3. make bookmarks default page when editing starts.

This is as per Ian's suggestion.

Comment 2

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

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This can be added if once UX decides on removing the page altogether.

Comment 3

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

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This idea has one major issue: without the title, it will be very hard to understand what the "Tabs from last time" tab is about. The icon alone definitely does not communicate this well enough. Furthermore, I'm not entirely sure how visually balanced the bottom tabs will look with only 2 icons. My concern here is that they might look a bit strange with so much empty space, especially in landscape orientation with the extra horizontal space.

Thoughts?

Comment 4

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

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If you remove the title from the home_history_list layout (in the previous patch), you'll have to remove all references to the title (mTitle) in each fragment too as they will not be necessary anymore.

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

A user commented the other day in channel after hours that they liked the most visited pane because it reduced the need to type anything to access their most frequented websites. Removing this will re-introduce that inconvenience, will it not?

Comment 6

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

I thought "most recent" was a frecency sorted list, while "most visited" was the raw history. These certainly have different uses and I don't think they are redundant.

Wait until you get more than a week of history accumulated. The lists could be very different.

If you only visit the same 20 sites, then the lists might look similar, but that's not the current case in my Nightly.

Comment 7

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

Ok, let's park this discussion. 

I'm getting almost equal parts Yay and Nay so far on this decision, so let's leave Top Sites in for now, and revisit a little later in the cycle.

I would however like to try changing the "tap URL bar" behaviour to land the user on Bookmarks instead of History.

Comment 8

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