Context Menu for Awesomebar Results
Havvy <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:34:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Back when the awesomebar came out, I instantly tried opening a context menu for an individual result, to see what I could do to it. Since the awesomebar doesn't have a context menu, right clicking did nothing. This spawned at least two bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482044 (Reso Duplicate of next bug) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461830 (Reso Unconfirmed) Furthermore, I notice that there are plans to add a 'delete' button to the awesomebar results (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi? id=675818), amongst other changes, and that one of the issues is, is that delete works differently on whether or not the result is a bookmark or just in history. I believe that a good solution would be to make it so that delete tells the browser to remove it from history and history alone (unless there is an odd case in which bookmarks have to have been visited to be bookmarks) and that if one wants to remove the page as a bookmark, they can open a context menu over the item and select "Remove Bookmark". Also, the other common elements "Open in New Tab", "Open in New Window", "Open Here", ect. can also be included. Context menus are more discoverable (I only learned of the shortcut for deleting an item off the list today), and don't take away from the other shortcuts or visible elements.