Closed Bug 131472 Opened 23 years ago Closed 8 years ago

History / Bookmarks: Search or Find ?

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: bernard.alleysson, Unassigned)

References

Details

1) Ctrl + H the wording for searching history is "Search history..." but in other places mozilla uses "Find": a) "Find Bookmarks..." b) "Find in this page..." (though the top menu is Search.... !) c) shortcut is Ctrl+F, I mean shortcut for (F)ind ? Why not use "Find history..." instead ?
I have to add that the dialog box title for "Search history..." option is "Find in history" ! That says it all
And this also happens for the bookmarks search (or find). Seeing as the main browser has find and CTRL-F, maybe it's best to stick with find for history and bookmarks too.
... And also put it under the same menu as the Browser (Edit).
user interface design might be better
Component: History: Global → User Interface Design
seems like a fair point to me. i can't see a reason to choose between "search" and "find in" for these, so being consistent would be better. obviously might be a WONTFIX, but i don't think it's invalid, so confirming.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
All/all. Bumping up to normal severity because currently our "find" menu item is not in the same place in the history window as in other windows, and the wording is ambiguous. For example, in the browser window "find in this page" is under the Edit menu. In History, "search history" is under tools. Currently, the "find" feature is difficult to discover. I'm strongly in favor of changing the wording to "find." The phrase "search history" is ambiguous. It could mean a history of one's searches. It's irrelevant to say "search history" when you're already in the history menu.
Severity: minor → normal
Keywords: mozilla1.1
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Component: User Interface Design → History: Global
*** Bug 198875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding to summary since this is of more general interest than originally reported (comment 2)
Summary: History: Search or Find ? → History / Bookmarks: Search or Find ?
Keywords: mozilla1.1
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
QA Contact: claudius → history.global
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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