Fenix: Support various actions (add to top sites, bookmarks,...) on open tabs
What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?
Currently if a user wants to add a site to collection, top site, bookmarks,... or wants to share it he/she has to click many times to do the task.
How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?
At the moment Firefox supports adding an open tab to a collection and for all the other actions you need to take multiple steps.
Who will benefit from it?
People with a lot of open tabs who quickly want to organize them by saving or sharing.
Possible explorations
- as part of multi-select
- on long press
sheikh-azharuddin
All 5 comments
One problem I see is that a lot of visual clutter gets added to the tabs tray when this functionality could alternatively be achieved by long-pressing a tab. I prefer to keep things simple (at least visually) and show more of a tabs content (see for example ) rather than put a menu on every single tab.
Especially considering that a) long-pressing a tab to pop up a context menu also works and b) Fennec did not have this.
dglttr
on 2 Jul 2020
Fennec had a different tab management style....also it doesn't has collection feature....both are completely different..not right to compare..
Regarding the 3 dot menu...if the long press will popup a menu what's wrong with 3 dot menu...instead of that cross it will show a 3 dot....anyway long press idea is also good
sheikh-azharuddin
on 2 Jul 2020
@topotropic for feedback.
AmyYLee
on 5 Jul 2020
Thanks for the feedback. This is very valid feedback but I disagree with the proposed solution of adding a three dot menu to every open tab. We're currently exploring ways to better multi-select open tabs and are considering adding more actions (atm you can just add selected open tabs to a collection). That said, the long press idea also seems promising. I'll go ahead and update comment 0 to reflect what I wrote here. Thanks again!
topotropic
on 15 Jul 2020
This is in progress https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/16132 (PR: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/16236). I'll close this issue but please feel free to re-open or open a new issue for additional feedback. Thanks!
topotropic
on 4 Nov 2020
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Thanks for the feedback. This is very valid feedback but I disagree with the proposed solution of adding a three dot menu to every open tab. We're currently exploring ways to better multi-select open tabs and are considering adding more actions (atm you can just add selected open tabs to a collection). That said, the long press idea also seems promising. I'll go ahead and update comment 0 to reflect what I wrote here. Thanks again!