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Revision as of 20:08, 7 August 2010
, 7 August 2010Added the section for menus, added the item about the OS X pop-up menus.
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=Menus= | =Menus= | ||
* The "Tools" menu is redundant. In OS X, | * The "Tools" menu is redundant. In OS X, applications have a menu that performs a similar function, the "Window" menu. In Firefox, this menu only contains the options for "Minimize" and "Zoom". Most of the items from the "Tools" menu should be under "Window". This includes "Web Search", "Downloads", "Inspect", "Error Console", "Web Console", and "Page Info". "Web Search" should be near the bottom of the menu. | ||
* "Add-ons" should be moved from the "Tools" menu to the "Firefox" menu. | * "Add-ons" should be moved from the "Tools" menu to the "Firefox" menu. | ||
* "Web Search" should be moved from the "Tools" menu to the "File" menu. | |||
* "Clear Recent History..." should be moved from the "Tools" menu to the "History" menu. | |||
* "Start Private Browsing" should be moved from the "Tools" menu to the "Firefox" menu. | |||
* Firefox's dock menu(the menu that comes up when you right-click the Firefox icon in the dock) should include a "New Window" item. Reason? When using Spaces, this is a fast way to get a new window on a space where there are no Firefox windows yet. Safari has this and I suspect it is often used. | |||
* Firefox's dock menu should include a "History" submenu, to view recent pages. | |||
* Firefox's dock menu should include a "Start Private Browsing" option, like Google Chrome's dock menu includes. | |||
=OS-X-like pop-up menus= | |||
* Firefox's pop-up menus only superficially ''look'' like Mac widgets, but they do not ''behave'' like native Mac widgets. When clicking a pop-up menu on a Windows or Linux system, the selected item is highlighted, but the user always has to scroll through the pop-up menu from the beginning to view the selected item and nearby items. This wastes time. [[File:Firefox-style-popup menu.png]] By comparison, in other OS X applications, like Safari and Google Chrome, when the user clicks on a popup menu, the menu appears with the selected item directly under the mouse, so the user doesn't have to scroll as far to get through the list. [[File:Mac-OS-X-style_popup_menu.png]] | |||
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=Firefox Fullscreen= | =Firefox Fullscreen= | ||