610543 - Create one button keyboard shortcut for displaying full page title in the Awesome bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101108 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101108 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Currently the only way to get the full page title of a page is to hover over the tab. Can we have a hotkey so as that the full page title can be displayed in the Awesome Bar?

I opted for the Awesome Bar because the tab strip isn't always present. Otherwise I would've suggested stretching the tab upon the key press.

I'm suggesting that it's something simplistic. Maybe one of the FXX keys or a simple A-Z press. But it most certainly shouldn't be a Ctrl+X or a Alt+X.

The full page title should only remain exposed as long as the button is pressed down.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Paul [pwd]]

I totally understand why this was marked as an enhancement rather than a bug, however it does attempt to fix a pretty major bug which requires thinking outside of the box as this bug attempts. This bug attempts to meet the challenges in terms of accessibility and usability and it should more than be enough to warrant it's blocking nomination. It's for that reason, I'd also have preferred it to remain a bug rather than an enhancement. But as I said, I understand why nomination was changed.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I'm suggesting that it's something simplistic. Maybe one of the FXX keys or a
> simple A-Z press. But it most certainly shouldn't be a Ctrl+X or a Alt+X.

Not for an action like this. Even a 3-key shortcut is questionable. Asking for uiwanted about the general usefulness and how to proceed.

Comment 3

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

The shortcut would likely have limited use since it would only be discovered through word of mouth and support documents.  I recommend we try this out with an extension.

Comment 4

[Paul [pwd]]

Well when I envision this. I imagine that you'd press the key and you'd get something slide up over the URL to display the full page title and then it'd slide back down. The alternative approach is for it to slide out from the favicon and back in. You could also put a button in the customisation palette that would do the same thing. That would up discover-ability.

Comment 5

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Not blocking on this. As Alex said, the keyboard shortcut approach lacks discoverability. We need to fix or at least mitigate the root problem in primary UI and that's happening in another bug.

Comment 6

[Claudio Roberto França Pereira]

I want this too.
Maybe a hover tooltip with the shortcut over the favicon should help with the shortcut discovery problem. I liked the approach suggested by #4.

Comment 7

[Claudio Roberto França Pereira]

Would it be too radical to replace the current page URL with its title when the awesome bar is not focused?

Comment 8

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to Claudio Roberto França Pereira from comment #7)
> Would it be too radical to replace the current page URL with its title when
> the awesome bar is not focused?

Seems like it'd be a security hazard to me. Definitely something an extension could do though.