217551 - Preferences window should be sticky

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42339

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Ariel Faigon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

It would be more friendly if the Edit->Preferences
session would have an 'Apply' (without discard dialog) button
in addition to the 'OK' one.

Currently, there's a usability problem when a multiple click
session to navigate to a certain preference option gets lost
every time 'OK' is clicked and users have to repeat the whole
multiple click process every time they get something wrong.

Example: to change proxy settings:
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies->Edit some value->click OK
dialog window gets discarded and the whole process needs to be
repeated.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See example above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Dialog window gets discarded forcing me to go through the
whole process again if I got the value wrong the in first try.

Expected Results:  
Have an 'Apply' button which will do what 'OK' does now
but without discarding the dialog.

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

You don't need to do OK for every preferences page you do changes on. Just press
ok after you did _all_ the changes.

Apply is bug 42339.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42339 ***