Development:Summer of Code 2006

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The Mozilla Foundation accepted Desmond Elliott to work on Improvements to the tabbed-browsing experience as part of the 2006 Google Summer of Code. Mike Pinkteron will be mentoring this project. Desmond's original proposal can be found here.

Original Proposal

The initial proposal covered several features/bugfixes which are listed here:

  1. Ability to rearrange/reorder tabs by drag and drop. Bug 160720
  2. Drag tabs between windows (tear-off feature). Bug 318260
  3. Extend/fix tab overflow, possibly with two clickable overflow chevrons. Bug 319777
  4. List all tabs in windows menu (or implement window/tabs palette). Bug 197720

Consultation with the community

The community were polled here and here for any thoughts that they had in addition to the initial proposal. The results of this period of consulation are included here, with status updates in accordance with a group discussion held between the developers of Camino.

This list has been split into 2 different sections: Things that users of Camino should be able to do are ideas that could be easily condensed into a single sentence, and features that people would like to see in Camino are ideas that are a little bit juicier.

Items in italics indicate implementation guidelines, rather than features/bugfixes.

Things that users of Camino should be able to do

  1. See a drop down menu with the history relating to that tab. WONTFIX
  2. Preview opened tabs. (Possibly as an impl. detail for tab expose)
  3. Undo close tabs or re-open a closed window. Out of Scope
  4. Bookmark all open tabs. We already do this
  5. Set how many tabs can be displayed in a window before overflow control kicks in WONTFIX
  6. Set the minimum width of a tab. Bug 268213
  7. Select a tab on mouse-over delay. WONTFIX
  8. Turn off any overflow interface. WONTFIX
  9. All tabs should have the same control-click functionality, whether that's through tab repositioning or by some other method.
  10. Close all tabs to the left or to the right of the current tab. WONTFIX
  11. All new implementations should be as accessable as possible.
  12. Choose whether the start or middle or end of a page title is shown in a tab title. WONTFIX
  13. A user should be presented with a tooltip associated with a tab when they hover over the tab that displays the page title and url of the page (as long as perf is OK). Bug 183279
  14. Drag the space between 2 adjacent tabs to resize all tabs. (Possibly as impl detail for "minimum tab width", otherwise WONTFIX)
  15. Copy the current url at which this tab is opened (this would be useful for people who blog) WONTFIX

Features that people would like to see in Camino

  1. Sheets should be tab-modal and not window-modal. Out of Scope
  2. The default behaviour should change to append rather than replace with respect to dragging a bookmark folder from the bookmark toolbar to the content pane. Out of Scope
  3. A similar feature set to that provided by the Firefox TabMixPlus extension. WONTFIX
  4. A tab sidebar similar to what you might use in OmniWeb. WONTFIX
  5. Overflow implemented in a similar way to how Finder deals with overflow (with scrollbars). WONTFIX
  6. Remove the close button and instead make it hover over where the favicon is on the tab. WONTFIX
  7. Offer Tab Expose for switching between tabs. Bug 312007
  8. Implement tab-overflow control with 2 scroll buttons at either side of the tab bar. DUPE from original proposal
  9. Be able to focus on tabs using the keyboard. Bug 280963 --> hwaara
  10. Particular attention should be paid to accesibilty features. DUPE
  11. Somebody has suggested that we take a look at PSMTabBarControl.
  12. Somebody would like Camino to have session saving so that when it crashes they can reload it exactly as it was before. Out of Scope
  13. Somebody would like the tab bar to be bigger. This will be accomplished (only) by:
    1. Respecting UI scaling (loosely covered in Bug 258553)
    2. Growing 1-2px. Bug 326872
  14. Something similar to the ColourTabs extension to Firefox, for accessibility purposes. WONTFIX
  15. Prevent tabs from jumping to the foreground to grab the user's attention. Out of Scope
  16. A better Single Window mode. Out of Scope
  17. Save all open tabs. Out of Scope
  18. Be able to force-quit a tab that is causing Camino to not respond. WONTFIX
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