423309 - Add "Library" to the Tools menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Most of Firefox's secondary windows are accessible through the tools menu (Options [windows], Downloads, Add-ons manager, Error Console, Page Info).

For some reason every time I want to get to the library window I go to the tools menu instead of the bookmarks menu, and the only reason I can think of is that this is a well worn mental path for going to every other secondary window in Firefox.

Since the library window is starting to be a location that people want to go to for a variety of goals (as opposed to just because they have the very specific goal of organizing or managing bookmarks), I believe we should increase its discoverability (at the cost of redundancy), and add a Library entry on the tools menu next to Addons and Downloads.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this could give a sense to having the left pane last folder remembered, that is bug 329853

i asked to add a Library in Tools, the difference would be that Organize bookmarks menuitem in Bookmarks should always open in All bookmarks, while Library menuitem in tools should remember the last selected folder. That is what i implemented there, and to me could makes sense.

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

yay, add more 'clutter' in addition to extension entries to the tools menu ...

Comment 3

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

Renominating since this improves discoverability of a significantly revamped aspect of the Firefox UI, and makes navigation between different windows in Firefox more internally consistent.

Comment 4

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

Not blocking, and I don't think we have a string available to use here ...

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

what's the decision on comment 1, should it remember the last selection?

Comment 6

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>what's the decision on comment 1, should it remember the last selection?

sure

Comment 7

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Attachment: patch

This should do it, it adds the "Library" entry right after the "Addons" menu item. Note: this needs bug 329853 to function (on the dependency list). I imagine, though, that this won't make it into 3.1 :(. This is really a regression, so maybe it should be considered? (Firefox 2 remembered your last selection in the Organizer).

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 347687 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Getting this out of review queues until bug 329853 is fixed.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

We are not going to support for this, we have Show all history/bookmarks/downloads and that sounds like enough entry points for the Library.