631635 - To undo all damge done by Bug 541656

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Gary King]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110204 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110204 Firefox/4.0b12pre

1. Status Text and Progress Belongs in The Location Bar (url Bar)
2. To have it popping up every time one hovers a link is distracting/annoying.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Minfield.
2.No status text in URL Bar
3.No Progress Bar in URL Bar
Actual Results:  
Popup in lower right left of UI showing Link Status, No progress indicator in URL Bar

Expected Results:  
Expected results are what was happening prior to this not needed fix of Bug 541656

Showed status in URL Bar as well as Progress.

Comment 1

[u279076]

Probably not going to happen.  Bug 541656 is the way we will continue to do things.

Comment 2

[Gary King]

Yes why fix something that your users want. Oh I forgot Chrome uses what you are now..

Comment 3

[avada]

I felt like it clutters the location bar. I think I would prefer it as a tooltip. But it wouldn't hurt in the titlebar either. Actually I have it on the addon bar and in a tooltip due to extensions. To optionally have it on multiple places wouldn't hurt anyone.

Comment 4

[Gary King]

There are quite many users that want it and the progress bar back where it was. Mozilla does not seem to know when they have a good thing. They also rely way to much on extension devs to fix what they refuse to. Mozilla should also listen to their users.