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Add Suggestion For Resend Dialog Sheet
Currently, the Windows 7 Jump List functionality can be obtained for Firefox with [https://brentf.com/blog/software/winfox-ndash-firefox-and-windows-7/ WinFox], but it would be useful for a standard install to have this. The Pinned/Frequent/Tasks model WinFox uses would work well, and would mirror the way jump lists are used for many native Windows apps (IE8, WMP, etc)
== ggoo ==
Currently when restarting Firefox, if one has it configured to restore windows from a previous session, any pages with POST data will display a sheet explaining that the data must be resent to redisplay the page. This is of course necessary any time one wants to redisplay a POSTed page, and the decision must be available to the user. There are two problems I will address about this feature, one with what appears to be the current plan to change it, and the other, a problem with the current behavior.
I see at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Product_Requirements_Document> at item "GKO-002a" that this sheet (as it's displayed under Mac OS X, at least) is apparently going to be changed to an error page! This could be a big disappointment, as it would seem to mean one would lose all the forward history in the window or tab! It might be that this should be an optional setting, but it shouldn't be mandatory for those of us who like to be able to retain the forward history.
The other problem with the message is not normally an issue when one is using the Back button to navigate to a page that needs reloading, but is a problem when one is restoring a window with several tabs. In the latter case the message dialog sheet obscures the URL field in the address bar, so one can't tell what page one is being asked to resend data for. This leaves one in the awkward position of either guessing what page it is, or just declining to reload ''all'' pages initially, in which case one gets an error page for each of them, and loses all the forward history for each such tab, which as I explained above, I often wish to retain. If the dialog message were simply elaborated to include the URL (and possibly the original title, if it is saved between sessions) of the page that needs reloading, then a better decision could be made by the user.
So please retain the modal dialog type of notification (such as a sheet) for pages that require POST data to be resent, '''at least as an option''', but modify the dialog to be explicit as to the URL receiving the data (since that's the page to be displayed), and possibly the URL sending the data as well, if they differ significantly.
[[User:Ggoo|Ggoo]] 02:12, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
