35428 - RFE: optional up button to chop off last part of URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33684

(Core :: Networking, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

RFE for an "up" button that chops off the last part of the URL.  It would 
probably be off by default.  

The main reason I'm posting this as a browser RFE instead of asking skin 
developers to do it (aside from the fact that i'm a bugzilla-vote whore) is 
that there should be standard code inside mozilla that the skins can call.  
There's no point in each skin developer creating the functionality separately, 
especially since they would probably each do if differently.

Potential problems:
- How would it handle a site where /foo/ redirects to /foo/index.html?


See also the following slashdot comment and its replies: 

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/04/08/1110208&threshold=-1&cid=148
(more permanent url) http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/08/1110208.shtml#148

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

A "top" button that acts like an href to / would be nice as well.

Comment 2

[Gagan]

cool idea, but not really a networking thing -> don would know...

Comment 3

[David Hugh-Jones]

The 'up' and 'top' buttons could be combined into one. Cf. the 'back' button.
You click once to go up one level, or there is a drop-down box which can take
you all the way to the top.

Nifty way to do directory browsing too. Gosh, it would be just like... uh...
windows explorer.

Comment 4

[David Hugh-Jones]

this is a duplicate of 
<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33684">bug 33684</a>, 
which has had some interesting discussions.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33684 ***

Comment 6

[Tom Everingham]

verifying as dupe of 33684