Right click for history list on back button? You have got to be kidding.
Every day it's something new... Why on earth did you see fit to remove the VERY CONVENIENT drop down arrow on the "back/forward" buttons that allowed you to navigate more than one page back or forward? Yes, I am well aware you can now achieve this by right clicking on the button, but come on, that's just dumb. Nothing intuitive about that at all. Stop removing these options. You may want it a certain way, but that's fine for you, and you alone. Give us users the ability to keep these very simple and silly settings the way we want them.
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You can also hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens.
You can look at this extension:
- Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/
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You can also hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens.
You can look at this extension:
- Backward Forward History Dropdown: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/backforedrop/
Thanks for the reply. Add-on solves it However, as I have stated before, forcing users into third party add-ons for such basic features as this is unacceptable and a sign of either programmer laziness or hubris.
I agree with you about a surfeit of third party add-ons and it might have been better not to change but is right click so difficult? And the holding of the left click advocated by cor-el seems perfectly intuitive to me.
No, right click is not difficult at all. But that's not the point. The point is that the right click function coexisted happily alongside the drop-down button in FF3.x, so why the need to remove the drop down button in FF4? What does that have to do with speeding up the browser? FF4 is riddled with examples such as this, where toolbar functions were completely removed or altered for no reason related to speed increases whatsoever. Options should increase, not decrease. If the devs believe a button is useless, introduce the option to use it or remove it, don't make the choice for the user.