64073 - Abolish "Clear Location Bar" (combine with `Clear History')

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Prefs->Navigator->History

There's a button labelled "clear location bar", but the text next to it makes 
it sound like it should be "clear location bar menu" (or "clear location bar 
history").

Also, to make it more clear what the feature does, the text should be
"Clear the list of URLs typed into the location bar."

instead of
"Clear the list of sites stored in the location bar menu."

Comment 1

[timeless]

This is easy once we settle on a string.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

Reassigning to self. Wouldn't "Clear Location Bar history" be good?

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

Okay. mpt and I agreed about "Clear Location Bar history menu". Will fix this,
accepting.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

This is more complicated than it looks like. It involves that we need to settle
on a name throughout the app, which we haven't -- we're using different names
for the URLbar *everywhere*.

Reassigning to component owner.

Comment 5

[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 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

--> URL bar

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

--> xpapps gui while alec is gone

Comment 9

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

This looks like a nice to have enhancement (i.e. not a stop ship). Propose we
move ti out of 0.9.4 to a leter milestone.

Comment 10

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass moving lower-priority bugs to 0.9.6 (with Blake's pre-consent) to make room
for remaining 0.9.4/eMojo bugs and MachV planning, performance and feature work.
 If anyone disagrees with the new target, please let me know.

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

Does the button text really need to be that long? Can we improve the text 
around it? -> UI Design

Comment 12

[timeless]

history is ok, list is ok, imo it's not a menu.

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

1. -Typed address history-
The location bar menu contains addresses you have typed recently. 
[Clear typed addresses]

or

2. Make "Clear History" clear both global history and typed addresses.  If
you're surfing porn on a shared computer, you probably want to clear both.  Is
it likely that someone would want to only clear global history or only clear
typed addresses?

Comment 14

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Jesse's right. Having more than one history function is stupid. The menu should
be cleared when the `Clear History' button is clicked, instead of having a
separate button. Resummarizing, --> Preferences.

Comment 15

[Shriramana Sharma]

Can we please see some action on this bug? I know it's not a serious thing for
many but for people seeking to protecting their surfing privacy it may be.

Methinks the solution should be as simple as moving the code that executes when
the "Clear Location Bar" button is pressed to the end of the code that executes
when the "Clear History" button is pressed. And the label control, command
button control and frame control (forgive my VB-ese) for the Clear Location Bar
section should be removed.

Of course, the documentation should be slightly rewritten as well.

I am not an expert programmer, but I think that if I had the right to modify the
code myself (I may do the correction in my offline code, but I don't know how to
upload it back to the SM trunks, etc) I could do it, my very first coding
contribution to the SM code.

Comment 16

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I don't think we want to block for minor UI issues.

Why is this a privacy concern? You can do it anyway, it just needs two clicks.

Comment 17

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)

Comment 18

[Phoenix]

Is this still actual?

Comment 19

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

(In reply to Phoenix from comment #18)
> Is this still actual?

Yes, the initial comment still applies completely (it's only "websites" instead of "sites" nowadays). I'm not convinced that the combining part (which is mentioned in the summary) is really needed, though. I'd just fix the issues from the initial comment and be done with it. Simple l10n change (including Help). Good first bug even.