263527 - Clicking on throbber goes to web page

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Nick Lassonde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041004 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041004 Firefox/0.10.1

If you click on the spinner (or activity indicator as it's called in the
customization page), then Firefox goes to:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/

Seeing as how this can get clicked accidently and lead to losing your place on
page/data entered in flash/etc., and has absolutely no real benefit, I suggest
that clicking on the spinner _not_ do anything (or at the very least, not take
me to a page where I can download the software that I am currently using...)

(This seems like it's left-over from IE/Netscape wars, where it was a war going
for marketshare to remind users of what browser they're using. It's just not
necessary)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a flash web-site, such as www.homestarrunner.com
2. Accidently hit the spinner when trying to hit the un-maximize button
3. Watch browser go to Firefox's main page
4. Get really annoyed when you have to start the cartoon over again.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

works as intended, but you can simply drag it off with "customise"

Comment 2

[Nick Lassonde]

Except that having an indicator that things are still downloading is it's real
intenet, and it does a good job at that.

It's an 'activity indicator', not a 'link to Mozilla.org indicator'...

Comment 3

[Erik Fabert]

You can change this behaviour yourself, type about:config in the location bar, 
find 'browser.throbber.url' and change it to 'javascript:;'.

Comment 4

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

I guess it's by design and you have ways to bypass it as these guys suggest...

--> WONTFIX

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified wontfix