289780 - A way to customize menus should be provided

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Ruszlan Gaszanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2 (ax)

The problem:
Firefox extensions create menu items in arbitary places and order. Some
extensions create redundant items in several top-level menus as well as in
context menu. As a result, menus quickly become overcrowded and items are not
always showed in an order that makes sense (especially the Tools menu and
context menus).

Possible solution:
A way to reorder and disable menu items (may be something similar to
"Customize..." feature of MS Office applications) should be provided.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

There are extensions availible for this and most users don`t need this.

http://cdn.mozdev.org/compact/
and there is also an extensions for editing contect menus

Comment 2

[Ruszlan Gaszanov]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There are extensions availible for this and most users don`t need this.
> 
> http://cdn.mozdev.org/compact/
> and there is also an extensions for editing contect menus

Well, I tried Compact Menu and found it pretty useless since it only allows you
to twaek top-level menu items, which I personally find just fine the way they
are. The issue here is with first-level menus (especially Tools) and the context
menus, which become overcrowded with (often redundant) extension items. 

I personally could not find any extension that addresses this issue and not sure
if it can be addressed at extension level at all.

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Don't reopen bugs just because you disagree with the bug resolution. This is not
something that a majority of our user base wants and it will therefore not be
included in our default install.