998784 - Opening a new tab or tab group in panorama view is not intutitve (double clicking in empty space is the way to do it)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, enhancement)

Description

[Akshay S Dinesh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140410211200

Steps to reproduce:

I am browsing the web with 10 tabs open. Suddenly I have a new idea, I need a new tab group.
I go into panorama mode.
There is no way to open a new tab while you're inside panorma mode (or that's what I thought till I tried double clicking which is not very intuitive)


Actual results:

I didn't know how to open a new tab (or tab group) within panorama mode.
So, I'd open a new tab and then go into panorama mode and then drag the tab out of the tab group to create a new tab group.
And while I was about to file the request for enhancement, I discovered that double clicking in the empty space opens up a new tab group with a blank tab.


Expected results:

Double clicking is not used anywhere else in the firefox interface. So, there is no way someone will try to double click to open a new tab group in panorama view.

Expected: a new tab button inside panorama view, maybe in the right corner. Or at least a text reminder that you can double click to create a new tab group.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Philipp, can you integrate this with whatever else we're using to track Panorama improvements if necessary? Thanks!

Comment 2

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

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #1)
> Philipp, can you integrate this with whatever else we're using to track
> Panorama improvements if necessary? Thanks!

Sure, I have it on my radar :)
I'll mark this as wontfix for the time being, because I don't think that there will be a lot of energy going into enhancements of the current Panorama UI model (as opposed to some other tab grouping concept).