1003069 - customization broken around location bar in Australis

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 940078

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect, P1)

Description

[Matt]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

None of the elements in and around the location bar are customizable in Australis the way they always have been. I'm referring to the area inside the dashed box when the Customize tool is opened.

This is a UI/UX bug since the whole point of the Australis UI was to make it easier to customize.


Actual results:

I couldn't drag the reload button to be positioned between the forward/back button and the location bar.


Expected results:

I should have been able to drag the reload button to be grouped with the other navigation buttons.

Comment 1

[Matt]

Also, I have tried the Classic Theme Restorer add-on, and using it to just move the reload button to be between the forward/back button and the location bar makes a mess of the UI with having such inconsistent-looking elements present. This functionality needs to be built in to Firefox itself.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

As filed, this is a duplicate of bug 940078.

(In reply to Matt from comment #1)
> Also, I have tried the Classic Theme Restorer add-on, and using it to just
> move the reload button to be between the forward/back button and the
> location bar makes a mess of the UI with having such inconsistent-looking
> elements present. This functionality needs to be built in to Firefox itself.

This rationale could be used for any feature provided by an add-on ("the add-on is imperfect - make it part of Firefox itself, and it will all be much better!"). This conclusion doesn't logically follow, and in fact the evidence I've seen (long-standing bugs in our implementation of the navigation toolbar layout that went unfixed because they affected few people, and there were so many cases to test, and the limited number of Firefox developers also have other bugs to fix / features to create) suggests the opposite is true. I don't think it's a compelling argument to re-establish this as a builtin thing.

Instead, I'd suggest filing an issue with classic theme restorer on github: https://github.com/Aris-t2/ClassicThemeRestorer/issues

Comment 3

[Matt]

I'm sorry that you misunderstood my comment about Classic Theme Restorer. I wasn't saying there was something wrong with that add-on. I was saying that add-on could theoretically be used to customize the location bar area but that the results aren't as good as native customization support would provide.