208166 - Expand URL Drop down window to more lines.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

The dropdown options in the location bar is painfully too short (only 6 lines).
 Internet Explorer follows a standard of 14 lines.  I have come to the
conclusion that the reason for this decision was to accomdate the smallest
screen resolution a user would reasonably use (640x480).  [ I will attach a
screenshot to demonstrate this conclusion in a comment. ]  Mozilla could use
more lines as well; as it stands the list is just too short for comfort; people
who are used to more info on a computer screen don't like regressing to less
info (and this makes up over 90% of internet users from IE).

There are two possible solutions:
1. Use the most lines possible that will adequately fit on a 648x480 display. 
(I'll provide an attachment to depict this).
2. Use the max lines allowed depending on the user's screen resolution.

Solution #1 would be a quick fix and would require little or no programming.
Solution #2 would require a little more (but not much) more programming. 
However, it might provide more benefits to the user in terms of information
displayed.

I am proposing at least a minimum of implementing suggestion #1.  However, I do
not know if solution #2 would end up helping or hurting things.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kevin Ar18]

Attachment: Example of how IE does it (using 640x480)

Here is the attachment I promised.  No matter the screen resolution you chose,
IE defaults to 14 lines.  Based on this screenshot/attachment, it would seem
that IE does this to accomodate the minimum screen resolution most users will
have (640x480).  You will notice that the Location drop down does not exceed
the content borders.

Comment 2

[Kevin Ar18]

Comment on attachment 124845 [details]
Example of how IE does it (using 640x480)

Wrong Resolution = 640x400
aka (400 in height instead of 480)

Comment 3

[Kevin Ar18]

I've encountered a number of difficulties that have caused me to reconsider some
of the points of this suggestion.  There are so many different uses of the
browser to account for.  For example:
Phoenix allows adding toolbars.  If the drop down has too many lines, it would
exceed the screen size.  This is not normal, but it is possible.

As such, if we go with a static number like we have now, there is still room to
increase the amount, but we could not increase the number too much.
If we go with an option that is based on the screen resolution, one solution
might be to