338907 - URL / location bar shouldn't show arrow button when there's no browsing history

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Declan Naughton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060522 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060522 Minefield/3.0a1

When there's no browsing history (e.g. in a new profile or just after clearing the browsing history), clicking the arrow button in the URL / Location Bar has no effect.

Must the arrow button be displayed in this case?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. clear browsing history
2. up at the location / URL bar, click the arrow
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
the button shouldn't be there in the first place

Comment 1

[u279076]

I think having the button there is the way it is intended to work.  Removing the button or even graying it out would be rather trivial.  I do not think it is something that the average user is going to really care about.

Someone want to throw their input behind this?

Comment 2

[Peter Kasting]

This seems to work now; by default Fx3 shows a bunch of help/about type URLs when clicking the dropmarker on a new profile.