389708 - Don't switch to the plain Location Bar mode if the mouse is over the path

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: preview extension

This will make the host "move" less often and should thus reduce the overall noise of the new Location Bar.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch v2

... and switch on hover only if the protocol is hidden. This doesn't really matter for ui-review.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch v3

more optimized code and behaviour

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: preview extension

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: patch v4, kill <scrollbox>

This means that the tooltip with the plain URL will be displayed even if the URL doesn't overflow the Location Bar, and URLs that are too long for the tooltip will be cropped at the center rather than at the start, in order to expose the scheme.

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Attachment: preview extension

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Note that getting rid of <scrollbox> could help performance a bit, which is why I've added this bug to the dependency list of bug 386741.

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Comment on attachment 274741 [details]
preview extension

I'm not sure that this is actually better, since it still jumps when you put focus in the field, but now only sometimes jumps when you hover over the field.

It's an interesting idea, but the inconsistency in the behaviour makes it even more confusing, IMO.

Comment 9

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> (From update of attachment 274741 [details])
> I'm not sure that this is actually better, since it still jumps when you put
> focus in the field, but now only sometimes jumps when you hover over the field.

You actually have to halt the mouse over the host. With this change, simply moving the mouse over the field wouldn't trigger the switch in any case.

Other than that, I can't add much. I have a different opinion ...

Comment 10

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> (From update of attachment 274741 [details])
> I'm not sure that this is actually better, since it still jumps when you put
> focus in the field, but now only sometimes jumps when you hover over the field.
> 
> It's an interesting idea, but the inconsistency in the behaviour makes it even
> more confusing, IMO.

So, any idea how to improve this?

Comment 11

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I've submitted most of the infrastructural fixes to bug 388030.