Firefox/Projects/Control Tab
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Overview
- Description
dao developer boriss UI johnath technical advisor
Goals / Use Cases
- Reflective personalization: Showing users the broader patterns in their interactions with the web, thereby creating a tighter personal bond with it.
- Debugging: testers can use this page to gauge their web usage, and the amount of metadata generated by it, for feedback on bugs and feature usage.
Non Goals
Design
Reference
- Dao's Control Tab extension page
- dev.apps discussion
- visual navigation wiki
- Possible feature wiki June 2008
- Blog post: Tab View vs Application View, August 22 2008
- Blog post: Tabs Want to be Seen August 20 2008
- [Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox Blog post: Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox July 16 2008 (dear sweet jesus)]
Bugs
- bug 465076
- implements beltzner's proposal
- browser.allTabs.previews and browser.ctrlTab.previews hidden prefs default to false, allowing 3.6 to be shipped while the new UI is in limbo
- ready for review
- latest tryserver build