FYI: I'll bootstrap the infrastructure to manage about:home pages. This includes both the backend bits (i.e. change about:home to be backed by a 'configuration' instead of fixed list of pages) and a basic UI to manage it. More specifically, I'm talking about these bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942231 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940565 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942875 If anyone else is interested in this part of the Lists feature too: just let me know, we can split tasks. --lucasr ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Newman" <[email protected]> > To: "Ben Bucksch" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Ian Barlow" <[email protected]>, "mobile-firefox-dev" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 25 November, 2013 6:30:44 PM > Subject: Re: Third-party service integration > > To give you a bit of context re this point: > > > This feels extremely cumbersome, esp. because these are my bookmarks, i.e. > > the sites that I explicitly told the browser I want to be able to access > > quickly. > > I personally feel that the "top sites" are way too prominent in the UI, and > > (as an end user) I'm annoyed that I don't have a way to change that. > > You are quite unusual. More than 50% of our users don't use bookmarks at all, > and the majority of the rest use only a handful. Making bookmarks > super-prominent in the default UI would be doing those users (that is, the > majority of our users) a disservice. > > Top Sites is a pretty good middle ground, particularly because you can pin > whichever bookmarks you want to the six visible thumbnails. > > But, as mfinkle said, homepage tab customization will allow you to change > which tabs you see. > > > Note also that you can get to the home screen to pick a bookmark by opening a > new tab (and if you like swiping to close the tab you were on), rather than > tapping the URL bar. That'll stop the keyboard popping up. But if you *are* > tapping the URL bar, I encourage you to type instead of navigating with > taps. It's an Awesomebar, so just text-search for your bookmark! > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
