Comments on: What are the most popular Firefox menu items?

By: Nyuszika7H

Nyuszika7H — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:22:44 +0000

Hi,
I personally never use the Edit menu. I can do these things from the context menu, or with keyboard shortcuts. And the Bookmarks menu… I also rarely use it. I’m now using Minefield’s latest nightly build; have the File, View, Tools and Help menus in Personal Menu’s menu button, Bookmarks and History menus are in separate buttons. Until Menu Editor will allow to rename menu items, I can’t make a menu like in the mockups.

By: casper

casper — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:46:20 +0000

So you compared keyboard SCs with mouse clicks in the standard drop down menu (at the top. However did you also take into account straight mouse clicks (e.g. right click/save as) or click close tab on the tab itself? It is what I use most of the time.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:58:38 +0000

If you remove items from the menu that are primarily keyboard driven, how will new users know the keyboard shortcuts?

The whole point of having a GUI is that a user who doesn’t know what they’re doing can click through what they see to explore options. Menus have largely been the single largest source of education for teaching “ctrl+n” because they remind you every time you click that the action could be performed faster with a keyboard shortcut.

I’m all for simplifying the UI. There really are a lot of menu items that are hardly used. I’m just curious as to what will happen to keyboard usage over time with new users not having visual reminders of keyboard shortcuts. Is there another way to present this information to the user in a non-menu driven GUI that is also not intrusive?

By: Morbus

Morbus — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:58:57 +0000

Amazing.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:48:07 +0000

New Tabs are awesome!

By: Richard Le Poidevin

Richard Le Poidevin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:21:59 +0000

Thank you.

By: Gaspar

Gaspar — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:01 +0000

The most likely reason for high number of full screen users are the netbooks – where you try to use every bit of display to get the information.

I use practically all applications on the netbook in a maximized/full screen state.

By: Aero

Aero — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:11:14 +0000

True. I am the user like others.

By: jinghua zhang

jinghua zhang — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:00:40 +0000

We have some demographic data about pilots background, check them here:
https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/demoinfo-menustudy.html

By: Richard Le Poidevin

Richard Le Poidevin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000

Interesting study. I think it might be slightly skewed by how web developers/designers use websites though as View Source came about 20th, and I don’t think many regular users will be viewing source. I was also very surprised by the number of people who Zoom In (real users or designers wanting a closer look? Are we making sites with text that is too small?), and the number of people setting their browser full screen. I didn’t expect so many people to use either.

Perhaps it would be useful if Test Pilot asked if the user was a developer or not. I’ve a feeling most of the people interested in this extension are also interested in making sites. Saying all that, it’s still very useful and valuable and I am very positive that Mozilla does this testing.