989383 - [UX Work] Surface and promote tab related features

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

There are three major areas of tab management in the browser:
- Current tabs
- Synced tabs
- Recently closed tabs
- Tab groups

Right now, most of them are very hard to discover. We should find a design that integrates and surfaces these kinds of features.

Here's a first shot at the problem:
http://cl.ly/image/3y2L0Z1h000Y

Comment 1

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Attachment: WIP Mockup

Documenting some work in progress here.
This concept combines:
- tab overflow
- synced tabs
- recent tabs
- tab groups
- optional side tabs

Comment 2

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

The current prototype is located here: http://phlsa.github.io/ff-tab-center
This is not a completed spec, but a basis for further discussion.

Comment 3

[vithren]

Non-destructive filters (by date, by domain, by name, by session?) would be greatly appreciated. For example: show [x] in this group [ ] from all groups [x] opened on dd.mm.yyyy [x] from reddit.com [x] yesterday.

Add to that groups that accumulate tabs by filter.

Comment 4

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

The interactions are now defined here:
http://phlsa.github.io/ff-tab-center

This prototype actually shows two different things: the full implementation of tab center that we are aiming at, and a good first step (MVP), which is essentially a version of side tabs.

It doesn't fully cover every detail and edge case right now. That's fine because some things will likely change during visual design and implementation.

Comment 5

[Paul [pwd]]

Has there been any movement on this?

Comment 6

[Albert Scheiner [:alberts]]

Paul, is Bug 1058854 what you are looking for?

Comment 7

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to albert from comment #6)
> Paul, is Bug 1058854 what you are looking for?

Not really, because there's no activity in there either.

Comment 8

[Alfred Kayser]

Good to combine the different locations/management of tabs.
But please keep it simple!

We have learned for example that e.g. tab groups are nice for advanced people, but are too complex to handle for most.