Bug 679603 - Very Minor Usability Issue: Distinguishing Running Browser Sessions
Summary: Very Minor Usability Issue: Distinguishing Running Browser Sessions
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-22 23:28 UTC by David Le Sage
Modified: 2012-08-07 17:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 17:34:57 UTC
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Description David Le Sage 2011-02-22 23:28:44 UTC
Description of problem:

This is an extremely minor issue.  

If I am running two Firefox sessions, I might have a lot of different tabs open in each.  I might have a page that is the same in each (such as the home page or a pinned App Tab (as are now available in Firefox 4.)  If the same page tab has focus in each of the two browser sessions and I go into the overlay and right-click on Firefox in the Favourites panel, the web page is listed twice with no way to distinguish the two sessions.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fed 15

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox.  Open a number of web pages in different tabs.
2. Launch Firefox again.  Open more web pages in the tabs in this second instance of Firefox.
3. Make the tab that has focus in each of the two browser windows point to the same page (such as your home page.)
4. Go into the overlay.
5. Right click on Firefox in the Favourites menu.
  
Actual results:
Two listings for the same page in the pop-up menu.  No way to distinguish which browser session is which.

Expected results:
Some way to distinguish the two, even if it is just by a number in brackets to tell apart the two browser sessions.  Could be potentially confusing or just a little ugly, making the user think that the menu entry is erroneously appearing twice.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2012-08-07 17:34:59 UTC
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