Let Users Know About "Send to device" (Feature Discoverability)

[ehsan]

Why/User Benefit/User Problem

It allows for example continuing to read something from my phone to my laptop.

What/Requirements

Add a feature similar to "Send Tab to Device" on Firefox desktop.

Acceptance Criteria (how do I know when I’m done?)

When you can send a tab to a device that is syncing with Firefox Accounts and for the tab to open on that device.

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[ekager]

We do have send to device if you are logged in to fxa and press the 3 dot menu -> share. Is this different than what you mean?

[matusaurio]

It'd be nice to have the option Add to Firefox directly in the share options like the one in Firefox for Android (see image below) instead of just opening the link (current behaviour).

[ehsan]

We do have send to device if you are logged in to fxa and press the 3 dot menu -> share. Is this different than what you mean?

Thanks for pointing this out. To my great surprise (and embarrassment) I had never noticed this. :-/ It is indeed what I was asking for.

I think the reason I had never noticed it was that:
a) I didn't really expect to find "Send to device" under "Share" and
b) The Fenix Share UI looks very similar to the Share UI I get in apps like Google News where the top row of the icons represent people who I communicate with.

I tend to never use the top row of icons in other apps since the share UI in other apps rarely gets the list of people who I may want to share things with correctly, so I suppose my eyes were trained to ignore that row after a while.

Perhaps there is something we could do to make this UI more discoverable? Fennec made sending tabs a primary interaction in the application menu if I remember correctly, next to Share...

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