Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

On 21.08.2011 03:48, Reuben Morais wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ron Hunter<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>> IF the Firefox button kept track of
>> what the user did with menu items on the menubar when requested, and after a
>> couple of uses added them to the Firefox menu choices (User commands?), then
>> I could use it.

Users like consistency, users like to know where they find what. If the 
Firebox menu ends up suddently changing content without clear indication 
why, then that's just going do be confusing and a bad experience.

with a simple implementation the user can't depend on that the menu item 
will be there. Maybe it got replaced by another action the next time he 
opens the menu, because he used that action a few more times.

One way to mitigate that would be to have a "Pin to menu" option like in 
the Windows Start menu, for the user to make sure the action stays in 
place. Or there could be a popup that says "You seem to be using this 
action a lot, would you like to add it to your Firefox menu?".

But then different Firefox installations will end up with different 
menus. And Firefoxes on your laptop/desktop/work machine all having 
different menus can't be a good thing.

On the other hand: Unexcected changes to the menus and resulting user 
confusion will already happen anyway due to rapid silent updates.

/Stephan