61923 - Bookmark menu when you right click on location bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mike Kowalski]

When you right click on the location bar, the menu should include a bookmark 
menu. This is useful if some people don't have the bookmark menu selected in 
preferences. The menu should show some bookmarks and to view more scrolling 
will be required.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

IMHO I don't feel it's useful : you already have 3 ways to go to a bookmark :
the sidebar, the menu in the personnal toolbar and the bookmark menu in the main
menu.

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

Yep this should not be done it would crowd the UI even more. You can access
bookmarks through Sidebar, throug the Bookmarks menu, and through the Personnal
Toolbar is you have it on.. so honestly it's good enough for me
Fabian.

Comment 3

[Mike Kowalski]

When you right click on the location bar besides having Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, 
Delete, and Select All, I think there should be a shortcut menu. It would be 
very useful for people who don't want the sidebar or the menu in the personal 
toolbar. Some people may not like this idea, but some may like it, so I think 
it would be nice if it was an option. Having the bookmarks menu at the top 
makes it look like IE.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Given that a greater number of potential users of Mozilla are currently using 
Internet Explorer than are using any other browser, what, exactly, is wrong with 
looking like Internet Explorer?

A context menu is for items to do with the current context. Having an entire 
bookmarks menu in the context menu for a text field seems *highly* misguided.

Comment 5

[Mike Kowalski]

It should look more like Netscape 4.x than Internet Explorer. 

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Comment 8

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

bug 61924 should be done one way or another IMHO. This bug should be marked 
wontfix.

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> It should look more like Netscape 4.x than Internet Explorer.

There are three problems with that statement: (1) it was not supported by any 
arguments against my 2000-12-09 comment; (2) 4.x did so have a top-level 
Bookmarks menu; and (3) 4.x did not have a Bookmarks menu included in the 
context menu for its address field.

Adding a Bookmarks menu to the address field context menu would make it 
unwieldy and slow to open. And since the current Bookmarks menu is more obvious 
and easier to use (you only have to go past three items to get to the bookmarks 
themselves, rather than nine), nobody would use such a bookmarks context menu 
anyway. WONTFIX.

Comment 10

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Don't jump at me please if I say something stupid because I haven't been around
a long time, but is it possible that right clicking on the location icon could
show the bookmark menu? (or at least add bookmark, remove bookmark)?