205181 - Remove drop down button next to Location Bar

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Pham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I don't see it's usefulness. I can go to History and find a site much faster. Or
Go menu

There's also no button for Search Bar, so why for Locaton Bar?

Dirty browsers Opera, IE has them, but not simple Safari, Camino


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Warner Young]

This shouldn't be removed because some people DO find it useful.

Comment 2

[Pham]

Do you assume that some people use it or do you use it yourself?

Why would you want to find what sites you "typed in"? The dropdown only shows 6
items.
History allows you to see lots more than 6 and you can find more than what you
typed. It also has a Find function, which is better to type and find rather than
looking for stuff with only 6 items viewable

Comment 3

[noririty]

You can easily remove it using userChrome.css if you dislike it.
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker {display:none !important;}
.autocomplete-tree {display:none !important;}

-> wontfix

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Taking QA Contact