Comments on: Polishing Firefox, Week 2

By: Key22Gwen

Key22Gwen — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:50:13 +0000

I took my first home loans when I was 32 and it supported my relatives a lot. But, I require the commercial loan as well.

By: Ethan Sisson

Ethan Sisson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:58:59 +0000

I’m really happy about #4 getting done. I don’t know if separate implementation is required to also apply the change to the toolbar customize box, but that needs to be done as well.

It’s also bothered me that the toolbar customize box doesn’t animate in on OS X (like every other box like it in other apps). I know it’s a XUL box, so it’s not straightforward, but it would be a nice consideration.

Along that same though, the “Save Page As…”, and “Print…” boxes should be the same type of box as the toolbar customize on Leopard.

Here’s a polish bug for you:

On Leopard, if you change the contents of the location bar, then use Cmd+z to undo the changes, the state of the bar doesn’t return to a loaded page. Specifically, the go button sticks around and the site button is the one for a blank page. To reproduce:

1. Load any web page. (Only tried in Leopard)
2. Modify location bar contents.
3. Hold Cmd and press ‘z’.

Expected results: Site button for the currently displayed page should return, along with the bookmark icon and RSS icon (if there are feeds on the page). And the go button should go away.

It works as expected if you use Esc instead of Cmd+z.

By: Jason Oster

Jason Oster — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:18:55 +0000

Here’s one for OSX that could use a little TLC: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457491 — Buttons on the bookmark toolbar look bad (rounded edge off by 1 pixel) when tall items [like the quick search bar] are placed in the toolbar.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:49:15 +0000

I’m a bit unsure if those two fit here, but I’ll mention them anyway :)

First is Bug 63107 (On mouseover of submit button, show URL in status bar) which is at least nice.

Second is Bug 83749 (Accept property for input type=”file” should filter file types) which wouold be useful for accessibility.

By: Jason Oster

Jason Oster — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:40:58 +0000

José Jeria: The tabs in Safari’s preferences dialog box look similar (vertical lines on either side of the icons). I am using the latest WebKit nightly. I kind of like it.

By: mmc

mmc — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:31:05 +0000

The star and rss icons are not vertically centered, but they almost touch the top and right border on linux:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455524

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:13:20 +0000

Another annoying polish bug: whenever the notification bar appears, it pushes the content area down. This is both annoying and disorienting. Safari cleverly pushes the content area up as the notification bar comes down, so that the content never appears to move at all. This is what should happen whenever a new toolbar suddenly appears (except, I suppose, when you actually want to startle the user). [Bug 248715] Implementing this capability would allow other useful features, such as finally moving the find bar to the (more logical) top without being annoying. [Bug 254687] It would also allow two notification bars to appear one below the other unobtrusively (currently, the newer one simply overlaps the older one). [Bug 395307]

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:34:36 +0000

I’m going to have to push for this one:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392644
Control animations on Vista would be awesome! You’d even be the first browser to do it! (Even IE doesn’t for some reason)

One really minor thing I’d like fixed is having Combobuttons on Vista the same height as Buttons. (They’re a few pixels too high for some reason)

By: Bielawski

Bielawski — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:59:13 +0000

Re the menu hiding on Vista:
The hidden state is toggled using a context menu or preference in Vista applications. The Alt key gives focus to the menu bar, showing it if hidden. When an item is selected, the menu loses focus, or the Alt key is pressed while the menu still has focus, the menu disappears.

By: Daniel Luz

Daniel Luz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:12:07 +0000

One more, somewhat related: Context menus should respond to cmd/opt-arrow in Mac OS Again, the behavior seems to be already implemented; it's (apparently) just a matter of wiring the correct key shortcuts to it.