362217 - ctrl-L while navigation toolbar is hidden doesn't bring up the current address

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mozilla]

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

I get an empty address field
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Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

When there's no location bar Ctrl-L brings up the "Open Location..." dialog, in which a default of the current location makes no sense. The site in the title bar is supposed to tell you where you are in this case, and we've got a bug on not allowing the location bar to be suppressed ever. I think this is WFM or INVALID but I'll let one of the UI gurus make that decision.

Comment 2

[mozilla]

(In reply to comment #1)
> When there's no location bar Ctrl-L brings up the "Open Location..." dialog, in
> which a default of the current location makes no sense.

current location makes sense for several reasons:
- anti-phishing
- see more below


> The site in the title bar is supposed to tell you where you are in this case, 

supposed to maybe. It hardly ever does though.
plus when you have the address automatically selected (as usual) there's no extra action needed


> and we've got a bug on
> not allowing the location bar to be suppressed ever.

That might be a good idea. On the other hand for a presentation i'd like to have a real full screen option.

I think the exact same Navigation Bar should appear as a dialog on ctrl-L when the bar is not visible

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirming.
I think the last paragraph of comment #2 describes a good solution; there also were a few bugs requesting that in Mozilla Suite (some wfm, some something else).
It may also be decided that tab tooltip fulfills a part of this, but only a part, unless you can copy from it.
Moving to General component, because it's not a bug of Navigation bar itself.