361607 - Eliminate the "Home" icon from the toolbar, but provide the same functionality from the drop-down menu in the address field.

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

In another "enhancement bug" report, I detailed a way to eliminate the separate "reload" and "stop" icons by rolling the "reload", "stop", and "go" icons together into a single, dynamically changing icon, reducing visual clutter and making the interface more intuitive.

In this enhancement bug report, I'd like to suggest that the "home page" button functionality be moved to the drop-down menu in the address field. When the user clicks the arrow for the drop-down menu, the first option in the menu is always the home page, and it is identified by the "home" icon preceding the title of the home page. It would be separated from the rest of the entries in the drop-down menu by a horizontal line. Together with my previous suggestion for eliminating the separate "stop" and "reload" buttons, this suggestion would allow only the "back" and "forward" arrows to appear before the address bar, simplifying the user experience greatly and distinguishing it further from versions of Internet Explorer. The separate 'reload', 'stop', and 'home' icons can be a thing of the past, leaving room for a longer address bar.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

Please search before filing bugs.

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