On Oct 6, 2017 07:50, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
On 10/6/17 9:52 AM, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote: > I will add that 91% of the session on release have 12 or fewer tabs, and > thus would not be concerned at all by these changes. > Do we actually know that? As I said upthread, at the 100px tab width my tabs start to scroll when adding the 9th tab. This is highly dependent on screen size. For me it's 12, for you 9, on large desktop LCD monitors probably 20+. The more interesting comparison to me is "tab identifiability" ( heh ) vs chrome, which is a complex issue. Feedback has included questions about reduced identifiability with two extreme points of view expressed: people who think favicons are enough, and people who need some tab title context. I take very seriously the use case for the latter expressed here - lots of tabs opened to the same site. In this first phase, the question is, what is the minimum thing we can do to tackle this issue and the feedback. We've uncovered a number of aspects of the tab design that impact "tab identifiability" that causes problems for some users at various settings, but a more complex patch to address these in some way is out of scope. We simply don't have time. To bring this discussion to a conclusion, after some discussion in the second bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1406478> we're landing a patch that re-introduces the preference, and sets the minimum to 76. There are some remaining edge cases that aren't a great experience, but we think the improvement is worthwhile overall and in particular having the pref available is necessary as this seems to be a very polarizing issue. Stephen and I will be working wit the UX and frontend teams on strategies to mitigate the problems we uncovered by looking into this, I hope to see things improve over the next few cycles. thanks, Jeff -Boris _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
