880550 - Australis: bring back custom toolbar creation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)

Description

[al_9x]

Custom toolbars allow you, among other things, to have all buttons on one row and the urbar on another.  That has not been the default for a long time (don't remember if ever) but ui customization allowed users to stick with what works for them and not have the latest fad forced on them.

It is also a significant competitive advantage, other browser being less customizable.  Why remove it?

Comment 1

[Ioana (away)]

I'm not seeing anything changed/removed on toolbar customization on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130710 Firefox/25.0.

What exactly changed for you in the latest build?

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Ioana Budnar, QA [:ioana] from comment #1)
> I'm not seeing anything changed/removed on toolbar customization on
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130710 Firefox/25.0.
> 
> What exactly changed for you in the latest build?

This is about the UX/Australis builds.

I believe it not being present is part of a conscious effort to slim down the browser chrome, but I'll let UX confirm that.

Comment 3

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Indeed, this was an intentional decision (along with removal of the add-on bar). Nutshell reason was that it's even less frequently used than the add-on bar, and isn't something we want to continue supporting as part of core Firefox. An addon could provide this functionality.

Comment 4

[Florian Bender]

How about keeping the custom toolbar creation in some form to allow users to compensate for the addon bar (without installing an addon)?