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I've been wondering about context menus for these location bar icons: I guess my sense is that all of them should have context menus, and I'm a little suspicious of whether the ones that are inside the URL bar should have click actions (as the security one currently does). | I've been wondering about context menus for these location bar icons: I guess my sense is that all of them should have context menus, and I'm a little suspicious of whether the ones that are inside the URL bar should have click actions (as the security one currently does). | ||
The context menu for the security icon is probably simple: a single "Show Security Info" item that does what clicking on it currently does. (I tried right | The context menu for the security icon is probably simple: a single "Show Security Info" item that does what clicking on it currently does. (I've typically tried right clicking on these icons before left clicking, and was disappointed to get only the toolbar customization context menu.) | ||
The context menu for the RSS icon is a little more complicated. (I think it also may be a little less critical if it looks more buttonlike, because then the clear first thing to try is clicking on the button.) There's clearly demand for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254871 Copy Feed Location] for copy and paste into an external feed reader, and perhaps [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259444 more direct feedreader integration], but all of this is complicated by the fact that there <em>can</em> be more than one feed URL, but usually isn't. To optimize for the normal case but still be somewhat consistent when there are multiple URLs, I'd propose a context menu for the RSS icon that looks like: | The context menu for the RSS icon is a little more complicated. (I think it also may be a little less critical if it looks more buttonlike, because then the clear first thing to try is clicking on the button.) There's clearly demand for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254871 Copy Feed Location] for copy and paste into an external feed reader, and perhaps [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259444 more direct feedreader integration], but all of this is complicated by the fact that there <em>can</em> be more than one feed URL, but usually isn't. To optimize for the normal case but still be somewhat consistent when there are multiple URLs, I'd propose a context menu for the RSS icon that looks like: | ||