ithinc wrote:We have pinned tabs always favionized. Do you think "Faviconize Tab" should also be checked and allows deactivating?
Going by your suggestion, there will be two more questions:
3/ What if a pinned tab is unpinned? Should auto-protected/locked state be deactivated?
4/ What if a pinned tab is restored? Should auto-protected/locked state be activated, despite of manually protected/locked state?
I see.
Of course what I'll be offering now is based on Firefox 3.6.12, as it doesn't have a Pin tab function natively, unlike Firefox 4 that has it. So I will leave browser specific implementation to you.
In my opinion, if the difference between a Pinned tab and Faviconized tab is just tab arrangements (Pinned tabs are automatically put to the leftmost part of the tab bar and cannot be dragged for other arrangement, while Faviconized tab allows for arrangement anywhere on the tab bar, except to the Pinned tabs group), then perhaps we can simplify both functions as Pin tab, and make an exception via an option to allow tab arrangement with normal tabs for Pinned tabs.
If you would recall that even before browsers had a Pinned tab function natively, add-ons provided a way to _only_ display tab icons, but the tabs still behave like normal tabs and stay in place, and that they can be dragged around for arrangement. Now that Pinned tabs are native to some browsers, including the upcoming Firefox 4, and by approriately calling it as such, it is pinned in a group in the tab bar, separating it from normal tabs for management, then add-ons that faviconize tabs are no longer needed. I will follow suit with how browsers implement Pinned tabs function, but for users that request the ability to arrange Pinned tabs with normal tabs on the tab bar, then it's up to you if you will make an exception, but there must be sensible reason to and good research put on why current and upcoming browsers do not support this behavior.
I did notice, however that the Pinned tabs couldn't be arranged in their group. I'm not sure if this is a technical limitation for TU in Firefox 3, but if not, then at least make it so that Pinned tabs may be arranged in their group. The option for allowing Pinned tabs to be arranged with normal tabs just like Faviconized tabs, whether implemented or not, should have no bearing on the ability to arrange Pinned tabs.
Do you think "Faviconize Tab" should also be checked and allows deactivating?
I think by now this and all other related to this function has been answered, and we have achieved simplification and uniformity in handling tabs that are displayed by their icons.
p.s.
My reply to questions 3/ and 4/ will come shortly, as I don't want to be making the post too long.