581953 - Add long press functionality for "Back" system button

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Irina Sandu]

Other browsers on Android fire up a menu when pressing and holding the "Back" button. The menus offer options for closing like:

- clear history
- clear cache
- clear cookies
- minimize

Can we implement something similar in Fennec?

Comment 1

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

A long tap on the "back" button would be a logical place to put quick access to your history (for the current tab).  Perhaps only the last n sites.  We should do the same on the "soft" back button in our UI as well.

Clearing history, cache, and cookies are already found in our preferences area, and I think they're already as (or more?) prominent than they need to be.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A long tap on the "back" button would be a logical place to put quick access to
> your history (for the current tab).  Perhaps only the last n sites.  We should
> do the same on the "soft" back button in our UI as well.

We had a bug open on doing that and I even had a patch in the bug. Found it - bug 454880

Comment 3

[Alexander Ploner]

Since a long press functionality is implemented, what about closing this bug?

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Indeed, we use long press on the back button to show session history.