92524 - Removal of many unnecessary dialog boxes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jeffrey Drake]

One thing I have never much cared for in Netscape and now Mozilla is its
proficiency in the art of dialog boxes. By that I mean the number of dialog
boxes it brings up when it isn't necessary to bring them up.

I will give you an example:
I was going to a website, McAfee.com in this case, and here a dialog boxes comes
up informing me that it couldn't connect to a server (in this case to get an ad,
because the rest of the website loaded up fine). This causes a bad user
experience in my opinion.

It makes Mozilla look like a 'freakosaurus' (to take a word from st:voy).

I propose a solution that would take up space on the status bar (which is not
currently being taken up currently that I am aware of). Putting a combo box on
the status bar just to the left of the progress bar containing all of these
status thingies. 

I have had the experience of being interrupted a good deal of times by netscape
over this sort of thing. Interruptions are a thing to be avoided in a good user
interface. 

Microsoft's solution is better I think, but still needs some work. Their
solution was to put a whole webpage saying what happened and what could have
caused it (it is the obvious list). In some cases this replaces the current
webpage with this screen, which is what netscape's dialog boxes are better for.

Comment 1

[Greg Breland]

Platform->All
OS->All
Severity->Enhancement

Probably a "Wont-fix", but I will leave it up to Asa to decide.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> User Interface Design

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***