188228 - Preferences panel for homepage should list delimiter character for multiple homepages

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Gino A. Melone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

When in the homepages preferences you can list multiple homepages by seperating
them with a '|' character.  However, the screen doesn't mention this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools->Preferences->General




This seems trivial, but it renders the functionality almost useless.  I had to
look at the release notes to figure out how to list multiple URLs.  While
reading the release notes, I discovered that having multiple tabs would allow me
to simulate the desired effect.

Comment 1

[David P James]

There probably should be something. But this is nevertheless 'trivial' according
to the definitions of the bug types.

"Trivial: cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text"

Another possibility is to simply add a button that adds the delimiter; eg "Add
location separator". Ironically, this might actually be easier to hack up than
figuring out where and how to add an appropriate bit of text.

-->New
-->Trivial

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I've spoken with the developers and this is not going to be implemented in Phoenix. 

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.