646426 - url showed at the bottom if hovering over a link "jumping" if search box is enabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 631250

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Arno Nuem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

What's the point of switching the presentation of the full url when hovering over a link from the left side to the right side when having the search field (ctrl+f) opened? 

From a usability point of view it makes no sense to me. I'd expect the url at the same position both in having the search bar opened or closed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. hover over link -> url presented at the left bottom corner of the page
2. ctrl + f
3. hover over link -> url presented at the right bottom corner of the page
Actual Results:  
Url at the right side instead of the left side at the bottom of the page

Expected Results:  
URL should be always shown on the left side, nomatter if the search field is open or closed

Comment 1

[Arno Nuem]

Attachment: Position of url info bar with and without opened search field

Position of url info bar with and without opened search field. I think it should always be on the left side because I, as a user, would expect that and see no improvement by making it switch every time.

Comment 2

[j.j.]

> What's the point of switching ...  when  search field (ctrl+f) opened?

See bug 631270