179666 - RFE - double the depth of the drop down location bar

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Kob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

I found out that I can double the speed of finding past entry in the  drop-down
location bar if the drop-down depth (i.e. down the screen) will be doubled, as
in IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David P James]

This would be a nice, relatively simple improvement (at least I think it would
be...)

The component may be the toolbars component, but History seems reasonable as well.

-->Confirming for developer review
-->All OS

Comment 2

[Mike Krieger]

This isn't quite a perfect fix, but I dug around the chrome files and realized
that if you set the following in your userChrome.css file (information on
editing this can be found on the Phoenix Help page, usually at
www.texturizer.net/phoenix but temporarily at phoenixhelp.blomp.com), you'll
achieve the double-size drop down menu (default size is around 130px):

/*test- change the size of the drop-down url location bar*/
popup[type="autocomplete"],
.autocomplete-history-popup {
  min-height: 250px !important;
}

will make the URLBar drop-down always show up at 250px. You can vary this amount
and see what works best for you. The problem with this fix is that if you don't
have enough URLs in your list to populate 250px, there are blanks which look
odd. I thought maybe the solution would be to use max-height instead, but
Phoenix only "listened" when I used min-height. So, this is at least a temporary
fix until someone can shed a little light into making the drop down bar go to
250px, or whatever, *only* when there are enough URLs to do so. Hope this helps
a little.

Mike

Comment 3

[Kob]

Works great. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Kob]

Reopening. The proposed fix also doubles additional drop-down stores - e.g. the 
password store.

Comment 5

[Mike Krieger]

Hadn't realized it would affect the other auto-fill bars, I guess
"history-popup" refers to form history as well. Any addition/modification/total
rewrite of the proposed fix that would make it URLBar-only would be most
welcome, as this is something I would definitely use.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Fixed.

Comment 7

[noririty]

v.
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/toolkit/content/widgets&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=autocomplete.xml&rev1=1.11&rev2=1.12&root=/cvsroot

Comment 8

[Jonathan Horak]

Wouldn't it be nice, as well, if the depth of the location bar could be altered
(to the users preference) with an about:config pref? After the fix is appended
to Firebird, of course.

<< Jonathan