Firefox/Features/Generic Thumbnail Service

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

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:

Release Requirements

Next Steps

  • Design and specs

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Risks

Use Cases

Designs

Test Plans

Goals

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

Non-Goals

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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  Blocked: feature is currently blocked.
  At Risk: feature is at risk of missing its targeted release.
ETA Estimated date for completion of the current feature task. Overall ETA for the feature is the product release date.