1457296 - Add pulldown menu to Reload button when right-clicked or held down

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

Attachment: Reload.pdf

Like how the Back and Forward button provide additional options when held down or right-clicked, we should do the same for our refresh button.

See attached.

Comment 1

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

The idea with this approach is to leverage a mental model around fixing a page that isn't loading properly (by hitting refresh) to apply to recovering from breakage associated with tracker blocking.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Peter Dolanjski [:pdol] from comment #1)
> The idea with this approach is to leverage a mental model around fixing a
> page that isn't loading properly (by hitting refresh) to apply to recovering
> from breakage associated with tracker blocking.

The options in the dropdown list in the spec don't seem to include "Reload with TP disabled" or anything like it. Can you clarify what you mean? I don't think reloading with cache disabled will do anything to tracking protection.

I'm... not convinced it's a good idea to expose primary UI for cache-less refresh.

Comment 3

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

> The options in the dropdown list in the spec don't seem to include "Reload with TP disabled" 
> or anything like it. Can you clarify what you mean? I don't think reloading with cache disabled 
> will do anything to tracking protection. 

Those options will ship at a later date. We thought this was a decent interim step.

> I'm... not convinced it's a good idea to expose primary UI for cache-less refresh.

I'm all ears. It seems odd to me that we have an undocumented feature. I don't propose we surface it any higher than in this menu (which very few people will ever find).

After designing this, I did notice that Brave offers the same options in the same way. Chrome and Opera do not.

Comment 4

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

Let's hold off on this until the rest of Tracking Protection is defined.

Comment 5

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

Attachment: Reload.pdf

Now updated to reflect the latest tracking protection (content blocking) feature. Ready to roll anytime.

Comment 6

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This looks great!

Comment 7

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

Attachment: Reload.pdf

Added "Reload in Private Window" option.

Comment 8

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

Attachment: Added subtitle

Comment 9

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