Re: Improving Session Restore Experience (was Re: Reordering opened windows)

2014-07-10 Thread Tobias B. Besemer
This would be my suggestion (if possible): 1. Read sessionstore.js; 2. Open first window, don't reload tabs, restore size on the right screen if multi-screen; 3. For each window in sessionstore.js, in the order in which the windows have been opened initially, trigger window opening; 4. After

Re: Improving Session Restore Experience (was Re: Reordering opened windows)

2014-07-09 Thread Philipp Sackl
Hey all, here’s an illustrative video of the last option that David mentioned. http://cl.ly/2E0q3W3Y2S3h Note in particular, that the restoring of the background windows is not animated. — Philipp On 07 Jul 2014, at 06:43, David Rajchenbach-Teller dtel...@mozilla.com wrote: (Cc-ing

Improving Session Restore Experience (was Re: Reordering opened windows)

2014-07-07 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
(Cc-ing Philipp Sackl, for UX feedback.) At the moment, the simplified algorithm is the following: 1. Read sessionstore.js; 2. Open first window; 3. Synchronously, for each window in sessionstore.js, in the order in which the windows have been opened initially, trigger window opening; (Whenever a

Re: Improving Session Restore Experience (was Re: Reordering opened windows)

2014-07-07 Thread finnbryant
Seems to me there are advantages to the more complicated version anyway. Whilst it is reasonable to load the contents of the window they are likely to use first, I'm not sure it follows that you can avoid displaying the other windows until the first is finished loading. I imagine users could be