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URL Preview for links
In standard web pages within Fx, a url preview is displayed in the bottom-left corner of the page on hover. Can we implement this for our links within Lockbox?
Not easily, no. All of our "links" are actually Redux actions that open a new window. (This is how we get telemetry for these links.) It's technically possible to fix this, but doing it in a maintainable way would require a fair amount of work.
I also don't think this is possible, by design, on browser pages.
Another concrete example where this doesn't happen: if you hover on "FAQ" on our toolbar it does not show the URL as https://mozilla-lockbox.github.io/lockbox-extension/faqs/.
But you don't get this if you go into about:addons either. For example, click into an extension and see the links on that view. For Lockbox the "Mozilla" name is linked, and the URL to github.com is, but neither show "previews" in the bottom of the browser. Suggesting to me this is intentional...
On the other hand, open about:addons and go to "Get Add-ons" and look at the links for the authors of add-ons in that view. Those do have a tooltip.
Still, if we were actively using priorities on our issues (hint hint :)), I'd probably put this at P3.
Agreed on prioritization, just wanted to document the (potential) issue and consider it for future efforts (perhaps long term future) :)