992132 - indicate not loaded tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 716279

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[azatom]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140331125246

Steps to reproduce:

1. Select "Options/General/Show my tabs from last time"
2. Select "Options/Tabs/Don't load tabs unitl selected" (default on)
3. Use some tabs with changing title something like mail count/time/prices/...
4. Select other tab, close the browser and open the browser.



Actual results:

That tab not changing, this is expected but not indicated.


Expected results:

Should be grayd out the text, the favicon depixelate, or the whole tab widget indicate that some foggish color or anything.
I'm not an UI expert but I think the gray text can be enough, simple to implement and not conflicting with other things.

Comment 1

[azatom]

Somewhat similar but really different bugs:
Bug 577096 - App Tabs should indicate change of state in <title> 
Bug 437570 - Indicate if a tab is auto-reloading/redirecting when in another tab.

Since I think it is really important, simple to implement and affecting lots of users I think I am missing something important why this is til a thing? It is exist since that not loading tab options implemented.

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

This may be a duplicate of bug 716279 .
zfang, is this something you could answer or pass along to the UX team? Thanks!