118625 - pulldown menu off of reload/refresh button to access various behaviors

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10913

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[m_mozilla]

from http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46845#c67
component copied from that bug... not sure if it's correct.

refresh/reload/re-render/etc can be used to mean a least a few things:

    reload page from browser cache
    reload page from browser cache & restore form data
    reload page from server (re-submits POSTed form data)
    reload page from server (re-submits POSTed form data) & retsore form data

The parenthetical bits about re-posting data are only relevant when the current
page was returned as a result of an HTTP POST.

Bug 46845 (and others?) discuss implementing various of these behaviors as
defaults for the reload button, and as shift-reload.

Regardless of what the default reload/refresh behavior should be, this RFE is
that there be a pull-down menu which works rather like the history menus on the
back/forward buttons which offers the complete list of refresh/reload options.

If popular opinion is that this would just confuse users, I would like a pref
(even a pref with no UI) to enable the menu.

-matt

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10913 ***