Closed Bug 640491 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

URL Preview Change Location On Hover/Search page inconsistent, confusing

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: andyterminator_367, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/4.0b13pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/4.0b13pre Hovering over a url now displays a small white box down the left hand side of the screen instead of in the status bar, and hovering over this box results in the url preview switching over to the right hand side. The question question is why is this necessary? So that users can gain that little bit extra more display space? Making things fly all over the screen is confusing, and if a user really needs to get at that small area that wouldve been hidden by the box, they can just scroll down anyway. The trade off of more space for confusion does not seem justified in my opinion. Regardless of this, it is very inconsisant to have the url preview display on the right hand side of the display if someone opens a search field via ctrl+f or /. Why should the preview switch sides? It's not getting in the way of the search field in the event someone needs to display a url. I see no good reason to have the url preview display on the right hand side in one scenario but on the left hand side any other time. I think that the url preview should display on the left hand side only under all circumstances (or at least ones I can conceive of). To do otherwise is to create confusion in the end user through inconsistency, which is exactly what users don't want from a product. I know I for once have found myself searching for the url preview box on numerous occasions due to this nonstandard implementation. Indeed, good software design involves consistency not just across the product itself, but across other software products like it. To be able to simply pick up a product and already know how to use it/what's going on is a good sign. Reproducible: Always
This is not a bug. Please refer to the notes in bug 541656 and others related. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541656
The box moves out of the way of the mouse pointer so that links/buttons and other clickable elements of a web page are not obscured.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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