Jonathan Howard Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20151103004217

Steps to reproduce:

ff44+
One of many scenarios;
-changing tab
In first tab mouse is over content.
Move mouse towards second tab.



Actual results:

The dropmarker on urlbar pops up, causing distraction.

Worse when layout is customised with long url bar (dropdown further right.)  Worse with default theme (than developer edition.)



Expected results:

No distraction. Focal effects should not be occurring on items irrelevant to users action.

bug 1203494 initially added it. It is now (ff44+) occurring when over any of the chrome rather than just the urlbar. I didn't notice it in 43 probably due to me using tabs on bottom.

Personally just changed style to stop it but think it is bad UX for all to warrant report.
(Maybe even just reverting to show when hovered over urlbar bar.)

	Gingerbread Man
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

It's highly unlikely that an intentional change will be reversed without ample reason.

You can force the dropmarker to always show by using the following in the Stylish extension or the userChrome.css file. The style below will likely need to be updated once bug 1212482 is fixed though.

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

.urlbar-history-dropmarker { opacity: 1 !important }

	Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)
	Comment 3 • 7 years ago

It's intended per bug #1203494.