597689 - Attempt to sort optional toolbar items in order of popularity

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

In a new profile, the customization sheet offers these items:

Print
Activity Indicator
Downloads
History
Bookmarks
New Window
Cut
Copy
Paste
Full Screen
Zoom Controls
Sync

If we had a sense of which items are or will be more popular than others, we could put the more popular ones at the top.
For instance: I'd put Activity Indicator all the way down, as it's a pretty much redundant item. Cut/Copy/Paste seem niche, Sync as well.

Comment 1

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

good idea, only small caveat would be that we should probably keep a few of these grouped together (like cut/copy/paste) even though they might have a spread of usage.

Comment 2

[Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team]

It's definitely useful if people want to find their most common used items and put it in the toolbar. But the down side is if we keep changing the position of items then users might get confusing. One possible alternative is order the items based on the popularity among average users and stick to the order.

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Zhenshuo Fang (:fang) - Firefox UX Team from comment #2)
> One possible alternative
> is order the items based on the popularity among average users and stick to
> the order.

That's the whole idea.

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The items are defined here and just need to be reordered:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/ccbb41b873cd/browser/base/content/browser.xul#l849

Since I don't think we have hard data, I propose that we just move these items down for now:
cut-button
copy-button
paste-button
sync-button
navigator-throbber
tabview-button (remains at the very bottom since it gets added to the toolbar automatically)

Comment 5

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

Attachment: patch

Comment 6

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Comment on attachment 594679 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Thanks!

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/e5c0df11d314

Comment 8

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Thanks for the patch! :-)

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e5c0df11d314