Firefox/Projects/Control Tab

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.

Design

• Latest spec

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