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holy reload

Posted Dec 2, 2012 23:37 UTC (Sun) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784)
In reply to: holy cow by yodermk
Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?

I notice every time when I switch between home and work desktops that the reload button was moved from its traditional place next to the back and forward buttons to the right-hand side of the address bar (alongside the "bookmark star" and pull-down menu control), apparently causing the forward button to retire, too.

I'm sure that people put forward great reasons for changing all this stuff, but change apparently for change's sake can be really annoying, and it is why a lot of people stick with things like Windows XP (even going to the lengths of installing it over other Windows versions on newer hardware and also paying the Microsoft Tax) instead of just going with the "latest and greatest".

So the security argument is actually relevant because it references a widely observed phenomenon that continues to have security and maintenance implications.

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holy reload

Posted Dec 2, 2012 23:45 UTC (Sun) by ABCD (subscriber, #53650) [Link]

I notice every time when I switch between home and work desktops that the reload button was moved from its traditional place next to the back and forward buttons to the right-hand side of the address bar (alongside the "bookmark star" and pull-down menu control), apparently causing the forward button to retire, too.

The reload/stop buttons can be moved back to their traditional location by using the built-in toolbar customization. The forward button now only appears if there is something to move forward to (that is, you have used the back button).

holy reload

Posted Dec 3, 2012 8:23 UTC (Mon) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> The reload/stop buttons can be moved back to their traditional location by using the built-in toolbar customization.

Or they can be made completely irrelevant by using keyboard shortcuts :)

holy reload

Posted Dec 3, 2012 16:34 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]

I'll try and figure this out, thanks. Another problem I keep having is that Firefox 10 ESR periodically forgets things like the most commonly visited URLs or the open tabs, and occasionally just gets upset by some focus change and disappears spontaneously. I have the impression that it's just a lot less stable than the supposedly ancient version I use on Ubuntu "Historical Heron".