455948 - The view source window should have a toolbar with toggle-line-wrap and goto-line buttons.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Curtis Bartley [:cbartley]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
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The view source window should have a toolbar with toggle-line-wrap and goto-line buttons.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

Won't that be quite an empty toolbar? I'm sure that we'll be able to hide it, but why not add that functionality where there's already quite a lot of empty space: the status bar?

Comment 2

[Curtis Bartley [:cbartley]]

The status bar is probably a suitable alternative.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We have these in the menubar already, why would we add a toolbar for these?

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> We have these in the menubar already, why would we add a toolbar for these?

Better discoverability?  FWIW, if a toolbar gets added to the view source window, it would be great if it had back/forward buttons as well.  The new link browsing feature really misses this (yeah, I know about the context menu entries, as well as the keyboard shortcuts, but discoverability again would be the bargaining point here).

Comment 5

[Curtis Bartley [:cbartley]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > We have these in the menubar already, why would we add a toolbar for these?
> 
> Better discoverability?  FWIW, if a toolbar gets added to the view source
> window, it would be great if it had back/forward buttons as well.  The new link
> browsing feature really misses this (yeah, I know about the context menu
> entries, as well as the keyboard shortcuts, but discoverability again would be
> the bargaining point here).

I agree with Ehsan about back and forward buttons being desirable now that we have linkifcation.  There are probably some other things we could do with added toolbar realestate.  I don't know if it's generally useful, but I'd personally like to see cache information (was the file pulled from cache or was it re-requested from the server).  Mime type for images and other media types might be handy.  I suppose it's possible we could just use the status bar for that sort of information though.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Why not just make it tabbed.  And make it editable.  Ooh, and a debugger!

Sarcasm aside, we should decide what we really want/need out of view source in general before we start screwing around here.