Clear indication of HTML menu items
Where a menu item links to an HTML file that opens using the default browser, or to an HTML url, it would be nice if there was a round world icon on it, so as to warn the user that the browser is going to be activated.
Why?
Like many people, I have more than a hundred tabs open in Mozilla, across four windows. Permanently. They are all important to me; I don't want to lose them.
But sometimes I shut down Mozilla when it starts to get slow, then open it again when I want to check email, and all 4 windows and 120+ tabs open up.
But when Mozilla is closed, and then an application such as MuseScore suddenly opens a url or an html file, Mozilla opens single-window, single-tab mode, and forgets its previous session.
So yesterday this happened to me, and then it took me 1/2 hour of sweat and panic control to figure out how to recover my previous session.
Preferably, applications should NOT open url's or html files from menu items; but at least having a world icon next to such items would be a warning about the behavior one should expect.
Comments
Which menu items do link to an HTML file? Except from the About dialog?
In reply to Which menu items do link to… by Jojo-Schmitz
Frankly, I don't know, because the mouse-click was unintentional. I was looking at the items in the Help menu and the mouse clicked itself. Sensitive mouse. I was in the Help menu, for sure; may have been Ask for Help, or Report a Bug. What I know is I ended up in this website, but in some forum that was not a help forum, but I decided to register and then try to get help. But then I could not find help; everywhere I went it was asking me to join groups per instrument preference --Trumpet group, Piano group... Finally I joined a group called JOIN THIS GROUP and vented my frustrations there; then I got an email this morning telling me to come here instead. The only way I know that was this same website is that I was able to log-in as I came here.
In reply to Frankly, I don't know,… by danw58
If you ended up on the forum, it got to have been "Ask for help". And this forum is a help forum. "Report a bug" should lead you to the issue tracker.
I believe either link is shown as a link by being blue and underlined, just as inside a Web browser
Hi Dan,
You either followed the contextual help menu hidden behind F1 or right click > help, either one of the links in the help menu (handbook, ask a question, report a bug), either a link via about, or a link in the start center.
Indeed, none of them are advertised as links which are going to open the browser.
As far as I know, this is the first complaint we receive for this. Let's wait if more users want to see this change happen.
Thanks for posting and welcome in our forum!
In reply to Hi Dan,… by Thomas
Yes, I think the first call for the browser was from clicking on the handbook. Later I closed that window, and then it happened again with the ask for help, or something. Most of the time help files in windows apps are in a help file format and open in an app window, so it is unexpected that the internet browser should be invoked. It kind of reminds me of when an app, or a website, has a link for email, and clicking on it launches Microsoft's Outlook, no matter that I have never used it AND tried to remove every trace of it, from the registry and everywhere. Well, nothing to do with this, really, but similar in surprise effect.
Thanks for the welcome, and apollogies for venting frustration.