200249 - Order of context menu should always be the same

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 27338

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[gbrinkmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030306
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030306

IMHO it is not an user friendly design that the order of the items in the
context menu change from context to context.

For example: Why is "Back" not always the first item in the menu? It would be
much more simple to handle the back function if you can rely on the back item to
be placed in the first position. (Why does a user have to know if the page is
built with frames or not to find the back-menu-item?)

Also the "back" button should always be present. When you have selected some
text or the mouse pointer is about an image you currently cannot go back using
the context menu. 

Special things that regard on the context (e.g. copy&paste, etc. in the
selection-context or "View Image" in an image context or frame-things in the
frame context) should always be placed in the same part of the menu (just
separated by horizontal line delimiters from the general menu items) or
alternatively (and better) in submenus as it is done for "This Frame".

The same question not only for the back item but also for "Page Source", "Page
Info" and all the others that you cannot find in an selection- or image-context.

The resulting menu structure would be (on a page with frames which has an
backgroundimage, about an image and in the case of an selection, all at the same
time):


Back
Forward
Reload
Stop
--------
This Page >>
This Frame >>
This Image >>
This Background Image >>
This Selection >>


The contextual Submenus (all starting with "This " here) can contain their
special items then.

Perhaps some very often used items could still be placed in the main menu. For
me it was "Page Source", "Page Info", "Frame Source", "Frame Info".

It also would be great to have one "This Frame (framename)" submenu for all
frames in the current page. With this you can have access to a frame that
contains another frameset (multiple nested framesets) that you cannot access at
the moment AFAIK. (Try to view the source of such a hierarchical middle frame
with a current browser)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ARGH.  This is why we shouldn't have added even the "frame" submenu -- a submenu
in a context menu makes things very difficult and slow to get to, eliminating
much of the usefulness of a context menu...

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->menus

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27338 ***