950947 - transition between desktop and tablet is slow, reloads all tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Description

[David Crowley]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131202135815

Steps to reproduce:

Switch between desktop and tablet mode, or vice versa.


Actual results:

The transition is slow and reloads all tabs.


Expected results:

Faster transitions, tabs shouldn't reload.

Comment 1

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Desktop Firefox and Windows 8 Touch ("Metro" style) Firefox are two different applications; to switch between them we need to close one and then open the other.  We can work on making shutdown and startup faster, but we don't really have any viable near-term options for completely eliminating the restart.

Long-term we could work toward a system more like Internet Explorer where both apps can run at the same time and share data.  Maybe both frontends could use IPC to talk to a shared back-end process.  Then maybe we could move tabs between them without reloading.  However, this would require a major rewrite of large parts of both desktop and Metro Firefox.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Mass close of bugs in obsolete product https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350354