Multi-account-containers: New Tab Buttons for Containers

[Willamin]

A great addition for this extension would be new tab buttons alongside the default button. I've attached a quick-and-dirty mockup of how I envision this.

[ArchangeGabriel]

This is cluttering the UI, especially if you have a lot of containers. What’s wrong with the long press? Excepted that it lacks discoverability.

[Willamin]

This is cluttering the UI, especially if you have a lot of containers

Excellent point - I didn't think about what would happen if someone had many containers.

What’s wrong with the long press?

As a user, UI delays are annoying (when they only exist because of UI design). Honestly, for many workflows, the long press works great for opening specific containers. I've found that I typically close tabs when I'm finished with them. When I'm performing tasks that require multiple tabs open at the same time, I find myself long pressing the new tab button often enough that the long press feels like it's slowing me down.

I think many users will have only a handful of containers that they use often. It would be nice to have the ability to add container specific new tab buttons via the customize interface.

[ArchangeGabriel]

OK. Drag&Drop colored new tab icon for selected containers seems nice: this way, you can add only the most relevant one there, and the rest of them are still under the long press.

[groovecoder]

This is a cool idea, but not possible from the platform & Firefox UI.

[TanviHacks]

A separate addon could build something like this, but the platform will restrict you to only adding 1 extra icon (1 extra plus button, but not multiple).

[Willamin]

@groovecoder What makes this not possible?

[groovecoder]

@jonathanKingston can explain better. There's currently only a way to add 1 additional item to the tab bar UI. To add more, we will need the feature in mozilla-central, and Firefox UI team wouldn't approve adding more clutter to the tab bar UI.