Closed Bug 171884 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Put back/forward in all context menus (including images)

Categories

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Menus
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: maxwell, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

Please fix bug 135331 for Phoenix and put the Back item in all context menus. It's the most commonly used context menu item, makes the context menus more consistent, and on pages with large images finding an area that does not contain an image to click on can be a pain in the butt. The other navigation items are next to useless and as I see it only Forward would need to be included to give the menus balance or some such.
Let's get back to that nice gimp-style context menu with 32 items on it. Woo-Hoo!
spoke to the module owner and peers and there's no plan to do this now.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
VERIFIED Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030714 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 The Back/Forward functions refer to a page, not what your cursor is hovering over. It would make sense to have back/forward buttons form IFRAMES and FRAMES, but history already takes pretty good care of this. By the same token, you won't find View Image Properties in the menus. That is an image-specific function, not page-specific. There are a few exceptions such as Page Info and View Source, but those are very often used and are consistent across multiple browser products.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Taking QA Contact as designated owner of Firebird-Menus. Sorry for bugspam.
QA Contact: asa → bugzilla
*** Bug 250193 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think adding the most common navigation command should be considered highly useful. Please consider reopening this bug. Suggested criteria for including something in the context menu: If a function is used often by many users (like "Back") or there exists NO keyboard shortcut that is easily reached with only the left hand (ALT+CursorLeft requires two hands), then it should likely be included in the context menu.
*** Bug 266002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
QA Contact: bugzilla → menus
It's been 5 years, and modern web pages now are FULL of images, links, and code, which makes the spaces where the back button is available very rare. Please, someone, REOPEN this bug.
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