Firefox/Features/Generic Thumbnail Service

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Generic Thumbnail Service	Implementation not started yet	N/A	Alex Limi

Summary

Firefox should provide a generic thumbnail service, accessible from Panorama, Fennec, Areo Peek, Tab Previews, Places and of course add-ons.

Team

Who's working on this?

• Feature Manager:
• Lead Developer:
• Product Manager:
• QA:
• UX:
• Security:
• Privacy:

Next Steps

• Design and specs

Goals

• one thumbnail service for all features
• caching across the whole browser
• edge-case handling at one place not re-implemented for every feature

Other Stuff

It's probably good to coalesce prior art on this.

Panorama: TBD

F1: In a social context, thumbnailing comes in two flavors:

1. thumbnail a full page, as in this code
2. look for images which the content author wants to be used as the thumbnail in social networks for example, and thumbnail them (because they're likely more compelling and symbolic of the page than the full page thumbnailed). This is more subtle code, which should use page metadata (e.g. opengraph markup) to identify likely good images. See the current code used in f1 for an example.

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