171350 - [cust] allow customization or better control of full screen toolbars

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020927 Phoenix/0.2
I have moved my urlbar to a new toolbar
now, view|full screen shows no urlbar.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->hyatt or hewitt.

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

I suppose we could dynamically generate a special "full screen" toolbar when you
go into full screen mode, rather than just using the primary toolbar, but I
don't know if that is a good idea.

It's my opinion that if you change your primary toolbar around, that's the
toolbar you will get when you go into full screen mode, urlbar or not.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

If I fill up my primary toolbar with other buttons and search fields (and move
or remove the addressfield) I don't want you screwing that up just because I go
to fullscreen mode. If I wanted the addressbar in that toolbar I'd put it there.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

what about adding a new toolbar, say the "Fullscreen Toolbar", which can be
separately modified?

Comment 5

[Fabricio Campos Zuardi]

I'm with coment #4.
I use the url bar when not in fullscreen mode, but when in fullscreen I want
nothing but the content area.
So I would set my "fullscreen toolbar" to be inexistent, empty or 1 pixel tall.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 171876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[George K.]

Seems to me that Bug 176408 could be rolled into this one as well.  It is an RFE
to allow fullscreen Phoenix to display without a Toolbar.  A separately
configurable (and disable-able) Fullscreen Toolbar would fill that bill nicely.

If so, we have another Dup for this bug!

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Updating summary. What this bug is really calling for is a different
implementation of either fullscreen or toolbar customizing. Setting severity to
enhancement.

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

*** Bug 213720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Pham]

*** Bug 214658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Pham]

*** Bug 216967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 239544 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Michael Lefevre]

*** Bug 240863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Sekundes]

*** Bug 249648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 242401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 256887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Jon Barnett]

*** Bug 273926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Jon Barnett]

I posted 273926 and then marked it as a dupe of this bug.  
In 273926 I noted that I expected the Ctrl+L dialog to appear when the location
bar is hidden.

If the location bar is moved to the Menubar, and the Menubar is hidden in
fullscreen/kiosk mode, it seems that pressing Ctrl+L is selected the URL in the
location bar even though it is hidden.

The expected action would be that the Ctrl+L dialog box would appear (or a
similar dialog box).

I would consider this a "minor loss in functionality", and therefore the
severity should probably be changed from "Enhancement" to "Minor", since I am
prevented from changing my location.  I think this would satisfy the other
comments in this thread without attempting to dynamically generate a new toolbar
or create a new customizable toolbar altogether.  All we really need is the
location dialog - "Open Web Location"

I'm not changing the severity, and will leave this to the next person who agrees.  

Comment 19

[Cees T.]

I'd like no toolbars at all. I.e. use the full screen to show a webpage, without distracting popup menus. Just like the other popular browsers.

Comment 20

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I don't think we will realistically fix this particular use case (customized URL bar combined with full screen).