361606 - Simplify the overall user interface - integrate "Go", "Stop", "Reload" buttons into single control

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 351248

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Rory Buszka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

It may be possible to leapfrog IE's simplification of the typical browser interface by integrating the "Go", "Stop", and "Reload" functions into a single button at the end of the URL bar, where the "Go" button is now. When a user types a new address into the bar, the "Go" icon (forward arrow) appears in the button. The user can press the button to begin loading the requested page. While the page is loading, the "Go" icon changes to the "Stop" icon (red X). When the page has loaded, the "Stop" icon changes to the "Reload" icon (cycling arrow). The "Reload" icon remains until the user enters a new unique web site address, and then it changes into the "Go" icon. This way, the "Reload" and "Stop" icons can be eliminated, reducing the visual clutter and simplifying the interface beyond the simplicity offered in the new Windows Internet Explorer. This change would also allow an address bar to be included in pop-up windows, offering the user some amount of control of the page loading. This would be especially useful if the user does not want a pop-up window to continue loading.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

This has been suggested, discussed and beaten to death at least three dozen times already in various bugs, newsgroups and IRC. Duping to the only one that's survived.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 351248 ***