Closed
Bug 141308
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 23 years ago
Buried "New Window" is inconvenient
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 135571
People
(Reporter: snickell, Assigned: mpt)
Details
I frequently use "File->New->New Window". Having it under "New" rather than as a top level item is an "elegant" abstraction, but it also makes this common-for-me operation harder to use. I estimate it costs me about 5 seconds extra per new window, but more importantly it means I have to concentrate on operating the mouse more closely.
Comment 1•23 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135571 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Note that clicking on File->New (i.e. ignoring the submenu) will in fact give you a new navigator window (the first item in the submenu). This is 2 clicks, i.e. only a mild regression from the click-and-drag before the menu reorganization. (If this is a feature or accident is another topic, it is not mentioned at all in the discussion in Bug 135571.) Also, you can get a new window by clicking on the "M" icon in the bar at the bottom of the browser (not sure ATM what the official name is), which is 1 click. In view of this, I don't understand why the partecipants in the discussion in Bug 135571 go to such length. Am I missing something ? (Asking it here in a Resolved bug, to avoid bug spam, in the case I am ...)
Comment 3•23 years ago
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2 things I can think of: (1) The File->New trick doesn't work here for me (on the Mac), and (2) even if it did (or I was on my Linux system), it would never occur to me to use it that way, because I don't think I've seen one that works that way ("sub-menu itself is selectable, and is equivalent to the first item of the sub-menu"). We probably shouldn't have to (re-)teach people how to use pull-down menus to use Mozilla efficiently when we could just move a menuitem.
Yes, the File>New trick does not work any more, it was obviously a "bug" and not s "feature" and has been "fixed". The "M" approach is also not general, it only opens a second browser window from the first one. After that, it just alternates between them. Sorry for the spam.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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