102091 - Reload and Stop Buttons- not both necessary

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51129

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Phil Miller]

When a page is in the process of loading, the user does not need a reload
button, and when a page has finished loading, the user does not need a stop
button, so why have both visible?
I think that Mozilla should take a clue from the Opera browser, and remove this
UI redundancy.

Comment 1

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

mpt aint gona like this, but confirming anyway for review.

The problem with this is that users aren't going to get that the button 
changes. A button must do 1 and only 1 thing. If it changes or goes away, 
they wont get which action it will do and end up distrusting the button and 
the rest of the product. What would happen if your pencil had the point end 
when you started writing and had no eraser and then the eraser came 
when you started to write with the point being hidden when you stopped 
writing?

Comment 2

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

->all/all

Comment 3

[Andrew Thompson]

See bug 21623

Stop (sometimes!) stops animations as well as page loading, which is another
reason not to merge the buttons.

Comment 4

[Robin Green]

Stopping rapid flashing animations is a must. Please WONTFIX this.

Comment 5

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

hurry up and wontfix this mpt so I can get on with verifying this bug :)

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51129 ***

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

groan