Closed
Bug 42275
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Context menu Back & Forward should always stay at the top
Categories
(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement, P5)
Core
DOM: Navigation
Tracking
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Future
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(Reporter: drbrain-bugzilla, Assigned: bugzilla)
Details
When viewing framesets, the Back and Forward buttons are pushed down below an "Open Frame in New Window Button" and I don't like this. I frequently use the right click menu to navigate pages, and back and forward are the two most common features I use, followed probably by reload. I find the context menu is much easier and faster to use than moving my mouse all the way up to the back or forward button (yes I'm lazy, and I want to be as lazy as possible.
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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Guess this belongs under history, but I'll take it. I defer to german, the spec god, for whether or not I should make this change...
Assignee: bdonohoe → BlakeR1234
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: User Interface: Design Feedback → History
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: mpt → claudius
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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One more note, for links the behavior should be the same as it is now. (In my opinion)
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Comment 3•24 years ago
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Still need a decision here, pushing out until we get one. The question is really what action will be the most common in this case -- back/forward or open in new window? Matt, ideas?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Priority: P3 → P5
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 4•24 years ago
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Perfect behavior in this regard (IMO) is displayed by Navigator 4.x: the popup menu opens with the cursor right next to the item which an ordinary click would produce -- which is not necessarily the same as the top item. So when you click and hold a link for 0.51 seconds, you get the same result as if you clicked and held it for 0.49 seconds: ______________________________ | Back | | Forward | | Reload | |------------------------------| | Open This Page in Composer | | Send Page ... | |------------------------------| | Page Source | | Page Info | |------------------------------| _link_.|::Open:This:Link::::::::::::::| |\ Copy This Link Location | \ Add Bookmark for This Link | | New Window with This Link | | Save Link As ... | """""""""""""""""""""""""""""" That way Back and Forward are always at the top, but the most common item is right under the cursor. This is behavior I think XPToolkit context menus should eventually emulate (even if Mozilla's context menus aren't quite so full). If that's possible, then I think that Back and Forward should always be at the top even now, so that when we do get such cool context menus, we won't have to change the order of all the items in all our context menus.
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Comment 5•24 years ago
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I am confused by a couple things that you said: >the popup menu opens with the cursor right next to the item which an ordinary >click would produce This isn't the behavior I see in 4.75 on windows. >the item which an ordinary click would produce I don't really see this either. The example you gave was an Open this Link item when right clicking on a link, but this item doesn't exist in 4x context menus (on win32, anyways). > So when you click and hold a link for 0.51 seconds, you get the same result as >if you clicked and held it for 0.49 seconds What do you mean by this?
Comment 6•24 years ago
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Sorry, I should have mentioned that I was referring to the behavior (and drawing the link context menu) of Communicator 4.7 on Mac OS -- where clicking and holding something for 0.5 seconds brings up its context menu (as an alternative to Ctrl+clicking).
Maybe we need some screen captures, my link menu w2k nc4.75 looks like: Open Open - Back Forward Reload Stop - View View - Add Create Send - Save - Copy For mailto, i get: |------------------- |------------------- | Back | Forward | Reload | Stop |------------------- | View Source | View Info |------------------- | Add Bookmark | Create Shortcut | Send Page | ...Save Link As | Copy Link Location Those | and -'s are actually w/in the menu [I think communicator is just a bit confused] Personally I want Back/Forward always at top, put all of the specific stuff at the bottom; as a win32 user i can use arrow keys to walk up from the top.
Updated•24 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 8•24 years ago
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Sorry, I should have spotted this when I was first CCed ... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27338 ***
Component: History: Session → Document Navigation
QA Contact: claudius → docshell
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