Firefox/Features/Tab move detach animations

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Status

Tab move/detach animations
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	At risk
Status note	We've identified a handful of regressions as well as this feature impacting DND for existing tab related add-ons. The team is evaluating backed out the changes for Firefox 8.

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual	Alex Limi
Lead engineer	Frank Yan
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Paul Silaghi
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

When dragging tabs on the tab bar, we should show the tab and animate when you rearrange them, instead of showing a placeholder indicator like we currently do. We should also show a thumbnail of the page on detach operations, and make sure we have a good threshold, so this isn't triggered accidentally.

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

We're making this change because:

• It's a 1:1 representation of what will happen when you drag a tab, and makes it clearer which action you're actually performing.
• It also makes it easier to see when you're moving tabs vs. detaching.
• Also, it's pretty ;)

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Ability to move tabs left/right and have them animate when being rearranged.
• Ability to detach a tab to a new window and put back a detached tab into an existing window.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

• Interaction is described in bug 455694.

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

Firefox/Features/Tab_move_detach_animations/Edge_cases

8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

• bug 455694

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

We're making this change because:

• It's a 1:1 representation of what will happen when you drag a tab, and makes it clearer which action you're actually performing.
• It also makes it easier to see when you're moving tabs vs. detaching.
• Also, it's pretty ;)

|Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=* Ability to move tabs left/right and have them animate when being rearranged.

• Ability to detach a tab to a new window and put back a detached tab into an existing window.

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

	status	notes
Products	`	`
Engineering	`	`
Security	pass	`
Privacy	`	`
Localization	`	`
Accessibility	`	`
Quality assurance	Signed off for Firefox 8 Beta	Test Plan
User experience	`	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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