Re: FF 5. 0 and user interface

On 8/21/2011 1:50 PM, Stephan Hohe wrote:
> 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

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it would be automatic, but asking on the 
second use, 'do you want to include this item in the 'Firefox Button' 
menu? would be nice.  That way the user painlessly customizes the 
interface to his own needs.