Help Needed with Aero Peek Tab Previews
Bug 522262 is one of the more important blocking bugs for turning Aero Peek on for the next version of Firefox (with a slight chance of backporting to 3.6). I am having trouble determining the cause and reliably reproducing it on my machine. As some of you may know, I am a fulltime graduate student (school takes priority) and my Windows 7 laptop is suffering from intermittent (but frequent) screen corruption (it is becoming increasingly difficult to fix). For both of these reasons, I have not been able to work on the taskbar tab preview feature for the last 2.5 months. If you have experience debugging on Windows and would like to help out by determining the cause (or even a fix!), please feel free to do so! I would be very thankful for any assistance in tracking down the cause. And if there are other Aero Peek bugs that interest you (for example, this bug should be fairly easy to fix), by all means please take a stab at them.
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I hope this feature will remain optional. Because when there are more than 10-ish windows open, Aero’s thumbnail list reverts to a plain text list. Already I hit this limit sometimes, and if every single tab would be included, I would get to this limit in no-time.
i suggest you add “helpwanted” on bugzilla’s keywords field.
It will remain optional. There may even be a GUI option for it. Because Windows does revert to the plaint text list, I added a soft limit to the number of previews (default is 20) – once you have more than that, it will disable itself. There’s no way for a program to know when it will get the list view or not, hence the pref’d number.
Laurens Holst: you can tell windows how many thumbnails you want to see – http://preview.tinyurl.com/yal3fa2