818024 - Remove button should get disabled on pinned URLs in the new tab page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Atreya Srivathsan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121119183901

Steps to reproduce:

Quick click (top right) on pinned URL on "new tab page".


Actual results:

Removes the URL.


Expected results:

In the "New Tab Page", if I pin a tab then I expect it to stay for frequent use. Such pinned tabs having the remove "x" button causes misclicks in fast clicking, especially since the close button is hidden unless I mouse over. This happens several times a day for me and I am sure for others too. It should be a simple change, but will help several others like me who use the New Tab page as a custom quick link page.

Comment 1

[Loic]

No need to request that for me, just customize Firefox yourself with http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

Comment 2

[KLB]

Attachment: New Tab Page - Pinned site button DOM object.png

Comment 3

[KLB]

Attachment: New Tab Page - Remove this site button DOM object.png

Comment 4

[KLB]

I've uploaded two screen captures showing the DOM objects for the Pinned tab and remove site buttons.

This should be a relatively easy fix. It would require a binding that would append an "Pinned"=True to the relevant removed this site INPUT objects just as it is appended to the pinned tab INPUT object. A single CSS style rule could then hide the close button on pinned pages. 

Writing the CSS is very easy, the part I don't know how to do is to append the Pinned=True attribute to the object.

Comment 5

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 6

[Jessilyn Davis]

Hello!
This bug has been closed due to inactivity and/or the potential for this bug to no longer be an issue with the new Discovery Stream-powered New Tab experience.
Please help us triage by reopening if this issue still persists and should be addressed.
Thanks!