234005 - Feature req: Bring back Mozilla's "site navigation bar" in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver Feiler]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

Mozilla has a "Site Navigation Bar" (Menu View->Show/Hide) that renders
<link rel="previous" href="...">
<link rel="top" href="...">
etc. links inside that toolbar. It would be nice to bring that useful feature to
a next version of Firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[PikeUK]

This is available as an extension:

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/linktoolbar

Comment 2

[Oliver Feiler]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is available as an extension:
> 
> http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/linktoolbar
> 

Ugh, I must be blind. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This was left out intentionally.
-> WONTFIX

Comment 4

[Oliver Feiler]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This was left out intentionally.
> -> WONTFIX

Just out of curiosity, is there a document that describes which kind of features
in general will go into the application's core and which are rather added via
extensions?

I understand that the site navigation bar functionality is probably not
"mainstream" (as in: neither implemented on many webpages nor important for all
users), so it was left out.

Comment 5

[Martin Kutschker]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This was left out intentionally.
> -> WONTFIX

I guess there are good reasons for this decision. Personally I think those
"meta-navigation" is a good thing. I hoped for a more widespread adoption
leading to support by all major browsers (including IE).

Sad to see that instead of moving to a enabled-by-default state in
Mozilla/Firefox this feature has been removed altogether. A step in the wrong
direction IMHO.

Sorry for spamming, but I just had to express my feelings ;-)