1421625 - Add scroll to "Bookmark Toolbar" to ease the access of bookmarks, using >> button is not convenient

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[QWERTY]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171112125346

Comment 1

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Hi QWERTY, could you elaborate, please? I don't know what "add scroll to the bookmarks toolbar" means.

There's already a ">>" button if you have more bookmarks than will fit on your screen. Do you mean you'd like to be able to scroll them using your mouse wheel or trackpad (like tabs) or something else?

Also, in general...please include more details in the  when you report bugs. If you have enhancement requests, a description of the current behavior, and an explanation of what you'd like to see instead, would help a lot. Bugs with a vague or unclear summary, and no description, need a lot of back and forth, and will likely get closed. The more details you can include in the description, the happier everyone will be. :-) Thanks!

Comment 2

[QWERTY]

(In reply to Kit Cambridge (he/him) [:kitcambridge] from comment #1)
> Hi QWERTY, could you elaborate, please? I don't know what "add scroll to the
> bookmarks toolbar" means.
> 
> There's already a ">>" button if you have more bookmarks than will fit on
> your screen. Do you mean you'd like to be able to scroll them using your
> mouse wheel or trackpad (like tabs) or something else?
> 
> Also, in general...please include more details in the  when you report bugs.
> If you have enhancement requests, a description of the current behavior, and
> an explanation of what you'd like to see instead, would help a lot. Bugs
> with a vague or unclear summary, and no description, need a lot of back and
> forth, and will likely get closed. The more details you can include in the
> description, the happier everyone will be. :-) Thanks!

Scroll-bar like that on the side

Comment 4

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Please don't reopen closed bugs, QWERTY. Thanks for filing the request, but, based on the comments in bug 589612, we will not be adding scrollbars to the bookmarks menus.

Comment 5

[QWERTY]

(In reply to Kit Cambridge (he/him) [:kitcambridge] from comment #4)
> Please don't reopen closed bugs, QWERTY. Thanks for filing the request, but,
> based on the comments in bug 589612, we will not be adding scrollbars to the
> bookmarks menus.

In toolbar above!

Comment 6

[QWERTY]

(In reply to Kit Cambridge (he/him) [:kitcambridge] from comment #4)
> Please don't reopen closed bugs, QWERTY. Thanks for filing the request, but,
> based on the comments in bug 589612, we will not be adding scrollbars to the
> bookmarks menus.

Not bookmark menu (Library)

Comment 7

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Kit is right, this isn't something we would consider doing at the moment (also for the toolbar). Reasons include performance, usability issues, having to make the toolbar higher to fit a scrollbar, etc.

Comment 10

[In]

Adding < and > at both ends is a alternate?

Comment 11

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to In from comment #10)
> Adding < and > at both ends is a alternate?

I'm just not convinced this improves anything for a significant proportion of our userbase to be worth the implementation and  maintenance cost and performance impact compared to our current implementation. Why would having scroll items on both sides make anything better? There's no reduction in the number of clicks - if there is, you could just set the current toolbar up to have the most important items sorted towards the start of the toolbar... so I just don't see the point - if anything this would be more awkward than the current situation because it would take multiple clicks to explore the hidden portion of the toolbar on either side to find the bookmark you wanted, whereas right now at least it's essentially 1 click to open the popup for the '>>' button.