640531 - Home Button needs to be on the Left of URL Bar by Default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[shawn.sumin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Home Button needs to be on the Left hand side of URL Bar by Default.

No need to frustrate non technical users by changing location to right hand side.

Non technical users will not know that it is customizable, View ==> Toolbars ==> Customize, as it is not apparent unless you have read somewhere (instructions). That you can drag and drop other stuff i.e. home button, as it is not in the window which opens when you click customize.

There are 4,056 Messages when you search "home" in the Beta feedback: http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/beta/search?product=firefox&q=home , and most are confused why it was moved to the right.




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

If Home Tab is implemented then it will anyways be on the left. Hope we see it in Firefox 5. See Bug 551849

Comment 2

[Frank Yan (:fryn)]

This is WONTFIX.
See reasoning for fixing bug 615435 in that bug.