Closed Bug 38409 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

[RFE] Add history list to Open Web Location dialog

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla0.9.1

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: hewitt)

References

Details

Build ID: 2000050608

A dropdown arrow should be added next to the textbox in Open Web Location... 
that, when clicked, would produce a list of the 10-15 last entered URL's 
accessed from that dialog.  Similar to IE's combobox in File | Open...

Would be easy to implement and convenient for the user who finds themselves 
constantly opening, for example, a local file deeply buried in subfolders.
this'd be nifty!

don/radha, is this in the works, or a possibility in the near future?
Checked in last week.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
reopening, Radha I think this bug refers to having a url dropdown for the textfield in the Open Web Location Dialog box, not the 
location field in the nav toolbar(which you've already done).

I too think this would be a nifty idea.

Who owns that dialog? cc'ing law, in hopes that it is he.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
clarified summary :-)
Summary: [RFE] Add history list to Open Web Location → [RFE] Add history list to Open Web Location dialog
Blocks: 38865
Bug 38865 suggests autocomplete for this list, which I think is a good idea as 
well.
No longer blocks: 38865
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Blocks: 38865
In addition to the dropdown arrow and auto populate feature mentioned.  It would
be real nice if the cursor was auto magically placed in the open location box.
Currently, you have to move the mouse pointer and click before typing in a url.
I think you mean the caret [i.e. have the textfield have focus upon dialog 
loading].  moving the cursor for the user would be confusing
Hm, actually, the Open Web Location history list and the URL bar history list 
in IE are one and the same.  Should we do that as well?
Assignee: don → blakeross
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Component: XP Apps → XP Apps: GUI Features
Priority: P3 → P2
Target Milestone: Future → mozilla0.9
I'm thinking the layout of the Open Address dialog should be reasonably 
consistent with the layout of the XP filepicker for Open File (bug 58336). (On 
Linux we may even be able to merge the two dialogs somehow, which would be nice, 
but I haven't figured out quite how to do that yet.)

That means something like this:
+-------------------------------------------------+
| Open Address :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+-------------------------------------------------+
| Enter the address you would like  |B   | |R   | |
| Mozilla to open.                  |___v| |___v| |
|            ___________________________________  |
| _Address: [|__________________________________] |
|                                                 |
|                           ( Cancel ) (( Open )) |
+-------------------------------------------------+

`B' is a menu of your bookmarks (icon of bookmarks folder), and `R' is a menu of 
your recently-typed URLs (icon of clock with overlaid page proxy).
Priority: P2 → P3
taking, marking dependency. This is fixed by the patch in 43189.
Assignee: blakeross → hewitt
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Depends on: 43189
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9 → mozilla0.9.1
Themes Triage Team Marking nsbeta1+
Keywords: nsbeta1+
fixed
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
coolness. vrfy fixed:

linux comm 2001.05.02.08
mac comm 2001.05.02.09
winnt moz 2001.05.02.12
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → UI Design
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