932236 - email link vs. share

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: SocialAPI, defect)

Description

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

Bug 879982 introduces the "Email Link" button for Australis.  Share should probably handle this, and can once we have providers that offer email.  In the meantime, we should get a clear idea on the UX between the two.

A background note:

In the future, the share panel will grow a "find service providers" panel that will allow us to show the share button by default.  Users will then be able to add share providers from Firefox.  

Here is a possible way to handle this:

We can do something similar for default email.  There could be another panel, or perhaps it is a button on the panel mentioned above, that allows the user to use their system app (e.g. thunderbird) to send the url.

Comment 1

[Florian Bender]

Similar issue: On Mac it would be interesting to also integrate the OS-provided "providers" (like Twitter, Facebook, vimeo, etc.), this is essentially the same as the "Email case". 

See also how Safari handles this: It pops up a list of "providers" where a click on an entry then launches the provider in the browser (except Email which launches the default client).

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

SocialAPI was removed from Firefox 57 and is no longer available in any current release.