289458 - application wide terminology change (location -> address)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Az]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

After bug 241676 was closed, it was suggested that a terminology change for the
whole application should be considered.  I am suggesting that 'Location' should
become 'Address' in all cases throughout Firefox (potentially the other apps
too).  Examples of this would include the 'Location Bar' and 'copy link location'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Worcester12345]

Is this one done?

Comment 2

[timothy]

Still not done.

For example, in the about:preferences#privacy page, the term "Location Bar" is used, whereas in what I call the Address Bar, the text before you type anything says "Search or enter address".

I am sure like many others, the term used is not as important as being consistent.

Can someone at Mozilla decide, please?

My interest in this is that I am writing a config guide to Firefox for my missus... and she's already confused!

Comment 3

[Gregory Pappas [:gregp]]

I don't see any uses of location that could be replaced with address in our string files.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?path=.ftl&q=location

Seems ok now