Firefox/Projects/Control Tab

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Overview

Description
dao  developer
boriss    UI
johnath   technical advisor

Status

  • bug 465076 landed
  • browser.allTabs.previews and browser.ctrlTab.previews hidden prefs default to false

Next steps

Areas that need to be explored

Finalization of design open questions

While use current use cases for tab and window navigation have been throughout explored throughout the project, to fully answer the last few questions some minor testing could be very helpful; both to see if the design is immediately understandable and if over time it can make users' workflows more efficient. Ares for exploration include:
  • Is the current design, with 8 previews becoming all of them, the most efficient way to present information? Is it instantly understandable and does it fit well to the use cases of quick-switching and finding?
  • This design gives switching between recent tasks a higher priority than searching for a tab: could use confirmation in tests that this is the best interaction.
  • Can it easily become part of the browsing workflow?
  • Does it enhance the quick-find, visual, and textual search use cases?


Design

  • spec from November 2008
    • Mockups based on spec:
      Filmstriptabs1.png
      Alltabsview1.png

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