1231632 - about:sessionrestore Confusing GUI

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Ed]

Attachment: Firefox-RestoresessionsGUI.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Build ID: 20151029151421

Steps to reproduce:

Start Firefox after it was closed due to system reboot because Windows have installed updates


Actual results:

Firefox show "Restore Sessions" page with confusing GUI


Expected results:

Firefox should show "Restore Sessions" page with intuitively clear GUI

Look at the attached screenshot. 

1. The gray header (marked by red) with columns "Restore" and "Windows and tabs" behaves like buttons when the mouse hovers over it. However clicking "Restore" or "Windows and tabs" does not change anything. So, please, either make these headers inactive with respect to hovering or do make some action (sorting?).
In addition, the header name "Restore" sounds like an action/command. Restore! However no action happens when I click. More appropriate would be to call is "Restore?"

2. The boxes (marked by magenta) look like checkboxes but they are not or not working. Why are they there? Instead, the check boxes in the Restore colum do not look like checkboxes. If they are unselected, you even do not see a placeholder. Please, use only one of them AND make them visible even if they are unchecked.

3. If I click one of the items in the right column, the corresponding line becomes selected (blue). What is the aim of this? If I later click "Restore" button, it acts only on checked items rather than on selected line(s). So, it is useless and should be removed.

4. The text before the table says that I can try "Starting an entirely new browsing session", but it is not explained how to do this. By clicking "close"? If so, that it is a bit strange that one should click "Close" to start. Please, be more specific.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

#2 is a bug - it should be showing favicon for each URL

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This sounds like bug 1141675

Comment 3

[Ed]

Disagree. This bug is more extended (has 4 items) than 1141675, so 1141675 should be declared as a duplicate (better subset) of this one. And this one should still be addressed. Lookes like somebody is trying to improve fixing statistics, by not actually fixing things for 4 years (!!!).

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Think what you want - I have no interest in statistics.

Your bug title precisely matches bug 1141675. That said, you do mention other items. Please revise your bug report to only the items that don't match bug 1141675, and change the title correspondingly. And please note, generally speaking, bugzilla practice is one issue per bug report.

You might also take a spin through the bug list https://mzl.la/2X92K0t because I'm fairly certain there have been other bug reports about checkboxes.

Comment 5

[Ed]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)

Your bug title precisely matches bug 1141675. That said, you do mention other items. Please revise your bug report to only the items that don't match bug 1141675, and change the title correspondingly. And please note, generally speaking, bugzilla practice is one issue per bug report.

My bug title precisely describes the matter -- UI is awfull and has to be rectified. The bug 1141675 says something about favicons and this is NOT the subject of my bug. If there are no favicons -- its okay with me. So, all 4 points are still valid.

In general, if the bug is reported and NOTHING is done to fix it for 4 years, I basically am not going to invest more of my time into it.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 19 votes.
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Comment 7

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.