574928 - Place Menu Bar in the Title Bar when the window is maximized

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 813802

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100624 Minefield/3.7a6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100624 Minefield/3.7a6pre

Putting classic Menu bar (File, edit,etc) into the title bar will allow users to save vertical space while keeping the familiar menu that some users like to keep. 

In Windows Xp, this will keep consistency with the system.
Although in Windows Vista and Windows 7 this will not keep consistency, this will help to save space for those who want to use the classic menu. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Should this option be included in the Mac and Linux version of Firefox 4? I think Linux Firefox should include this option but I am not very sure about Mac since Mac have a system menu, so I don't think this option is valid in Mac.

Comment 2

[imradyurrad]

Attachment: menu in title bar

Comment 4

[imradyurrad]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Should this option be included in the Mac and Linux version of Firefox 4? I
> think Linux Firefox should include this option but I am not very sure about Mac
> since Mac have a system menu, so I don't think this option is valid in Mac.

There's no reason to include it since the menu bar is always visible in the system taskbar. Same goes for Bug 574511.

Comment 5

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Requesting to block beta 3+ along with bug 571785, bug 572160 and bug 574337. It will be good if all requested bugs can be landed in beta 3. 





(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Should this option be included in the Mac and Linux version of Firefox 4? I
> > think Linux Firefox should include this option but I am not very sure about Mac
> > since Mac have a system menu, so I don't think this option is valid in Mac.
> 
> There's no reason to include it since the menu bar is always visible in the
> system taskbar. Same goes for Bug 574511.

Bug 574511 is about customizing the bookmark button, I believe it should be landed for all platforms.

Comment 6

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

We'll be placing the menu bar in the title bar in maximized mode.  However in un-maximized mode, it is important that the window remains easily drag-able.  This change is best suited for an extension.

Comment 7

[lukaswrites.bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #6)
> We'll be placing the menu bar in the title bar in maximized mode.  However in
> un-maximized mode, it is important that the window remains easily drag-able. 
> This change is best suited for an extension.

is it set to blocking2.0:beta3?

Comment 8

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Alex, why did you mark this bug as WONTFIX? you could have just rename the bug to say placing menu bar in the title bar in maximized mode. 

Please mark Duplicate if you have already created such a bug.

Comment 9

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

>you could have just rename the bug
>to say placing menu bar in the title bar in maximized mode. 

Sorry about that, I thought that bug existed but checking the dependency tree of bug 556174 it doesn't seem to.  Modifying the summary and confirming.

Setting platform to XP (default is to have a menu bar), but this should be the behavior for maximized mode whenever the Firefox button as been turned off.

Comment 10

[imradyurrad]

This would be better as an option. Not everybody needs to see the page title twice.

Comment 11

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

The option part of the bug is covered by bug 585315

Comment 12

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

Minusing for now; really depends on whether or not we can actually do what bug 572160 is asking. We can renominate if & when bug 572160 gets blocking status.

Comment 13

[imradyurrad]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Minusing for now; really depends on whether or not we can actually do what bug
> 572160 is asking. We can renominate if & when bug 572160 gets blocking status.

Can we renominate now?

Comment 14

[Emanuel Hoogeveen [:ehoogeveen]]

Incidentally, the following combination of extensions does a good job of this in my opinion:
Beta version of Stylish for Firefox 4: http://forum.userstyles.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=23704&page=1#Item_1
Stylish style to hide Firefox button: http://userstyles.org/styles/41215
Personal Titlebar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/222214/
This works regardless of whether the window is maximized, though does run into problems for very small horizontal sizes. Personally, I also added the title back in, as I really have a hard time doing without it. Just posting this here for those who want to try it out to see how it looks - originally got the information from rob64rock on the MozillaZine forums.

Comment 15

[imradyurrad]

(In reply to comment #14)

Thanks. I found a userstyle that turned FF into this:
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3439/clipboard01mc.jpg

http://userstyles.org/styles/39290

It seems like with tabs in the titlebar when maximized, there's a lag when switching tabs.

Comment 16

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

I think this is mostly covered for Windows in bug 813802.