194041 - merge stop and refresh buttons

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Chris King]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030218 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030218 Phoenix/0.5

Opera browser merges the stop and refresh buttons to save toolbar space. Since
you can only ever stop a page while it is loading, and you would usually only
reload a page when it is not loading, these two buttons can be easily merged -
the icon changes depending on whether the page is loading or not. Perhaps
right-clicking the button would do the opposite of whatever is displayed, if you
want to refresh while a page is loading, or want to stop animations or something
after it is loaded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

I'm against this idea, for one main reason: If you intend to stop the transfer,
you will click the stop button. But what if the transfer completes just 1/10th
of a second before you intend to manually stop? That will lead to dataloss.

Suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

I'm agreeing with David here.

Comment 3

[flii (cj)]

i agree too.  this is something i would NOT want.

Comment 4

[Chris Cook]

David's argument is probably the best reason to not implement this. I think it
is also commonly agreed that UI elements should only perform a single function
so this would only add confusion.

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

-> WONTFIX
Cc'ing Asa for verification.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

verified. 

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact