963235 - Support for tab reuse or grouping based on the initiating app

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

For ux consideration, in 8.1 we can query the id of the app that fed us a url to open, and if we want, group or reuse a tab based on that id. 

// Implemented by Windows. When a Windows Store app launches 
// a browser via association launch, an object implementing the
// ILaunchSourceAppUserModelId interface is set on the site chain of
// the CoreApplication object of the browser. The browser may call
// QueryService(SID_LaunchSourceAppUserModelId, ...) on the site pointer
// to retrieve the interface from which the AppUserModelId of the app that
// launches the browser is available.
interface ILaunchSourceAppUserModelId : IUnknown
{
    HRESULT GetAppUserModelId([out, string] LPWSTR *launchingApp);
}

void GetSourceAppId(_In_ IUnknown *site)
{
    ComPtr<ILaunchSourceAppUserModelId> launchSourceAppId;
    HRESULT hr = IUnknown_QueryService(site, SID_LaunchSourceAppUserModelId, IID_PPV_ARGS(&launchSourceAppId));
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        PWSTR launchingApp;
        hr = launchSourceAppId->GetAppUserModelId(&launchingApp);
    }

    // ....This resource is later freed using CoTaskMemFree()
}

Comment 1

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Note, we can also do this for the "Search experience", and we have access to referrer info for this as well.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

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