179388 - Useless menu items in the source viewer

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Sébastien Delahaye]

As reported in this message
http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=488 , some menu items (Undo,
Redo, Cut, Paste, Delete) are useless in the source viewer, since you can't edit
the source.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Attachment: patch to remove useless items

Attaching the patch that removes the 5 useless items.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Comment on attachment 105764 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to remove useless items

blake, can you take a look at this patch and land it if it looks good? thanks.

Comment 3

[mmc]

Attachment: Update to the tip

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

as a fyi, this was done because the UI people thought it best to keep the layout
of the menu consistent across all areas rather than have one place where its
radically different (muscle memory etc).

Comment 5

[gaijay12]

I like those features because I can edit the source and save it locally or pick
it apart while fixing a page without being forced to save locally...

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Hmmm....thanks for the patch but I think we should leave the menuitems.

Comment 7

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

in response to comment #4: the problem is that you CAN'T edit source from the
source viewer..., 

also in build 20030626, "Select All" is greyed out, until I highlight some text
or select "Select All" from right click menu of text area.

Is that a new bug?

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact as designated owner of Firebird-Menus. Sorry for bugspam.

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

VERIFYING obvious WONTFIX bugs.  Filter on firebirdWontFix to filter these bugs.
 I skipped a few that I'm unsure about from their summary and will manually go
through them.