913879 - RFE: Add a "send tab to other device" button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 507471

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Elad Alfassa]

It would be really awesome if there was a button or a menu item that would allow me to send a tab to another device via firefox sync.

If the tab is sent to a phone, the phone should receive a push notification and automatically open Firefox for Android (or similar) with the page sent from the computer.

If the tab is sent to another computer, Firefox should open it right away and switch focus to it. If firefox is not open, the tab should be opened next time you open firefox.

Usecases:
 - I'm looking at a recipe on my computer. I want to send it to my phone with minimum necessary hassle so I can take it with me to the kitchen to prepare it.

 - I'm at work and find an interesting link. I want to look at it as soon as I get home, so I send it to my home computer so it would be waiting for me when I'm back

 - I'm reading an article using my phone on the way home. Once I'm home, I want to continue from the exact same position in the page on my big desktop screen


Right now, the only way to do it is to make sure the tab is open, click "Sync Now" in both devices (afaik it's not an option in Firefox for Android), and wait for the tab to appear in the "tabs from other computers" page. The sync now button doesn't even indicate when it finished syncing, so I might need to click "Sync Now" more than once in the target device and refresh the "tabs from other computers" page. Wouldn't it be nice if I could just send specific tabs directly, without all this hassle?

Ideally, sent tabs should include form data and exact scroll position within the page.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Please reopen if I'm wrong.