424481 - navigation toolbar dropdown marker should be between the back and forward arrows

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Matthew Wilcox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030318 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030318 Firefox/3.0b4

I've just upgraded from Firefox 2 to 3beta4 and I love the Back/Forward/V interface.  It's a huge improvement over the Back V Forward V interface.

I would find it slightly more intuitive if the dropdown marker were placed between the Back and Forward arrows.  If you'll excuse the ascii graphics:

Current:  <-  ->  V
Proposed: <-  V  ->

This makes more sense to me as it is equally a history of back as it is forward and the current placement suggests it is more to do with forward.  Also, my primary use for this was to go back a number of pages at once and it would be closer to the position it was in for firefox 2, so it would ease people's upgrade paths.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andy Behrens]

I agree, it would be more intuitive to have the dropdown between the back and forward buttons.

I'm using FF 3.0b5 on Linux, and the default theme for the Linux install -- "Firefox (default) 2.0 / The default theme"

Comment 2

[John]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 3

[John]

What I don't like about the new look is that the dropdown arrow is so far removed from the back button, especially since "back" is the more common action.  I understand the dropdown arrow being on the side with they "keyhole" buttons on Windows, but since the Linux theme doesn't have this, it's a bit odd - the arrow just sort of sits there on its own quite a distance from the forward button.  What would be cool is if the toolbar customization mode each of the back, forward, and dropdown buttons were separately movable so one could set it however one wanted.  Currently they all operate as one entity.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.