578959 - Remove favicon from Location Bar and add indicator for sites without identity information

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 588270

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100714 Minefield/4.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; sk; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100714 Minefield/4.0b2pre

Favicon is Location Bar is redundant, as it is in tab, so it isn't needed.

Also, because of removing it, we need to add indicator for sites without identity information.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

from bug 578929:

>- hiding the tab bar with only one tab open is currently still supported

> Also removing favicon will kill the possibility to drag it to desktop to make a
> shortcut (sure you can select all the url and drag it, but it's far more
> complicated)

Comment 2

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

For the desktop shortcut, we can use identity box for this purpose (provided that we add box for sites without idedntuty information as well).

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #1)
> >- hiding the tab bar with only one tab open is currently still supported

The goal is to have the favicon only once, thus I think it'd make sense to only hide the favicon in the location bar with tabs up. The option to hide the tab bar with only one tab will be less desirable with the new UI so it could probably be buried in about:config at this rate, anyway.

Comment 4

[imradyurrad]

(In reply to comment #1)
> from bug 578929:
> 
> >- hiding the tab bar with only one tab open is currently still supported
> 
> > Also removing favicon will kill the possibility to drag it to desktop to make a
> > shortcut (sure you can select all the url and drag it, but it's far more
> > complicated)

If that's the case, can't we just make dragging a url to desktop create a shortcut? It currently doesn't do anything so I can't think of a reason not to move the feature there.

Comment 5

[Ian Pottinger]

(In reply to comment #4)
> If that's the case, can't we just make dragging a url to desktop create a
> shortcut? It currently doesn't do anything so I can't think of a reason not to
> move the feature there.

Another more ambitious solution would be to make the entire identity button the page proxy that can be dragged to the desktop or wherever just as the favicon can be now.

Comment 6

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

I've already proposed that in comment 2.

Comment 7

[Ian Pottinger]

Opps! Should have reread the thread.  Sorry.