754306 - show URL bar for in-content prefs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Thaddee Tyl [:espadrine]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1
Build ID: 20120509040219

Steps to reproduce:

I went to the preferences tab (with in-content set).


Actual results:

The in-content preferences tab opened, but with the awesome bar hidden.
Even if it wasn't hidden, the URL is the same for whatever pane I'm on, which means that I cannot copy and paste it to someone I know to show them where they need to go to set some preference they struggle with.


Expected results:

The URL should be shown and meaningful.

Comment 1

[Martin Giger [:freaktechnik]]

Showing the awesomebar is not as tought as it sounds: most users have a customized toolbar. So there are their own icons, which allow function, sometimes content related. And they might not work with the preferences. Also for consistency: the addon manager also has hidden everything. I'd prefer a context menu entry which allows you to copy the url of the actual preference page. Maybe also show it there. I think with breadcrumbs this will be solved pretty easy, since breadcrumbs are another way of displaying the URL. So the copy URL function should be implemented there.

Comment 2

[Thaddee Tyl [:espadrine]]

Ensuring consistency is a good point. Although I'd actually be
in favor of showing the URL bar on the addon manager too,
I consider consistency more important, whatever the convention.

I like the idea of a "permalink" anchor to access breadcrumbs.
Shouldn't those be also present on the addon manager?

Comment 3

[Willy_ Foo_Foo]

wouldn't be it better if instead of using
say chrome://option/advanced/HarewareAcceleration

its used about:HarewareAcceleration in the url-bar

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

There's not much incentive to do this until we fix bug 754304.

Comment 5

[Valentin Tsatskin [:vt]]

The original issue of the awesome bar being hidden when viewing in-content preferences is not an issue in nightly. I remember seeing a bug (which I can't seem to find) changing this behaviour.

Looks like the rest of the discussion has diverged to subject matter related to bug 754304.

Comment 6

[u279076]

Florin, please make sure this gets tested.

Comment 7

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

I tested with the latest Nightly 31.0a1 on Windows 7 X64,on Ubuntu 13.10 x86 and on Mac OS X 10.9.

I agree with all that Valentin Tsatskin said in comment 5. This behaviour (the awesome bar being hidden when viewing in-content preferences) was changed, the in-content preferences is now a normal page, with URL bar always visible.