Our tab UI could be improved in landscape view on phones. Let's make better use of UI real estate by allowing tabs to scroll horizonally. Mockup: http://cl.ly/image/1W3u16240c1h * Normal and private tabs scroll horizontally in this view * Synced tabs scroll horizontally * Swipe up to delete normal and private tabs

Swiping up to de(In reply to Ian Barlow (:ibarlow) from comment #0) > * Normal and private tabs scroll horizontally in this view > * Synced tabs scroll horizontally > * Swipe up to delete normal and private tabs Swiping up to close in landscape, but swiping left/right to close in portrait seems a bit confusing.

It's a pretty common interaction on Android ICS+ nowadays. Take a look at Stock Browser, Chrome, the App Switcher. They all use a similar model and it's fairly easy to pick up on. If it is too much for people to handle, we can add in a more visual affordance, like a close button, if need be.

I'll be working on this from now on. I'll start with the horizontal listview/gridview changes in tabs tray.

Patches (reviewed in bug 817732) pushed: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/52eb67d56577 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/f7b36d82768d https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/d20e50778bbc https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/2ad939012eb8 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/3f0f2ba1521c https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/5ab1d763ff1c https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ff74c059d79f https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/173822e8dd83 https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/5445992580b1

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/52eb67d56577 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f7b36d82768d https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d20e50778bbc https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2ad939012eb8 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3f0f2ba1521c https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5ab1d763ff1c https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ff74c059d79f https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/173822e8dd83 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5445992580b1 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/007046026bfa

Verified fixed on: -build: Firefox for Android 20.0b1 build 3 (2013-02-22), Firefox for Android 21.0a2 (2013-02-25), Firefox for Android 22.0a1 (2013-02-25) -device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus -OS: Android 4.2.2

(In reply to Andreea Pod from comment #6) > Verified fixed on: > -build: Firefox for Android 20.0b1 build 3 (2013-02-22), Firefox for Android > 21.0a2 (2013-02-25), Firefox for Android 22.0a1 (2013-02-25) > -device: Samsung Galaxy Nexus > -OS: Android 4.2.2 This is definitely not fixed on the v20 and v21 builds you mentioned. Looks like it is only landed for v22 yet anyway.

Right that doesn't make sense. This is on trunk (mozilla-central, 22).