Ben Ruppel Reporter
	Description • 25 years ago

Hi, I've been through this argument in the ui newsgroup, but having a go button
is a good idea.  The majority of web browsing is done with the mouse.  This is
undisputable.  Yet this is no inherent way in mozilla to tell the browser to go
to the address in the location bar. So when copies and pastes an url to the bar,
and this happens often, there is no way to go there without moving down to the
keyboard, and this is a big waste of time and energy.

If you are worried that people won't be able to figure out that the enter key
works too, then call it the "enter" button.  But look at MS.  They have the
leading browser share, and all of their browsers have a go button.  A go button
is not some sort of strange new thing, it's the standard, I'm afraid.  And it's
usefull so I propose that some measure be taken to add a preference for it.

Perhaps, if the search button undergoes changes to turn it into a dropdown
button with different options, this could be quickly alleviated without major
design modifications or extra screen clutter.

	Blake Ross
	Comment 1 • 25 years ago

I understand your request for a Go button, though I have to disagree with you 
on a couple points.  First, you mention that there's no inherent way in Moz to 
tell the browser to go to the address in the URL bar without keyboard input--
this isn't true.  You simply have to drag the tiny file icon next to the URL 
bar down just a bit to the content area and release the mouse button; this has 
the same effect as pressing enter with a nominal amount of added effort.  
Granted, this isnt immediately obvious, but it's still worth mentioning that 
there *is* a way to do it.

Furthermore, your claim that a go button "isn't some sort of strange new thing" 
and that "it's a standard" is inaccurate.  In reality, a Go button *is* a new 
thing -- its first appearance in a major, widely used browser was in IE 5, 
which wasn't released all too long ago.  It isn't a "standard" either...how 
does it existing in the latest release of one browser make it the standard, 
when it hasn't existed for many years in all the releases of many browsers?

Okay.  I guess I'm going a bit far here on just a little RFE.  An option to 
toggle a Go button (a la IE 5.x) wouldn't be too bad, although your comments 
make it seem as if you believe that IE has the leading browser share because of 
its go button.

	Jesse Ruderman
	Comment 2 • 25 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30797 ***

	Ben Ruppel Reporter
	Comment 3 • 25 years ago

Okay, sorry.  First, I don't know why I couldn't find that this was a duplicate.
 I guess I had some wrong option checked off somewhere in bugzilla.

Second, I wasn't trying to say that IE has the leading market share because of
the go button, I wanted to say that a browser has done it and remains
successful, so it can't be too much of a suicidal move.

Third, I guess I'm dumb when it comes to IE.  I'm a Netscape fanatic and only
touch ie when i have to.  But I could have sworn that IE 4 had a go button.  I
thought it was optional.

If I'm not mistaken, the IE monopoly didn't really start until 4, because that's
when all the integration really came in.  So with my messed up idea of when the
go button came in, it's not that irrational to think that the go button was part
of the standard browser.  Just didn't want you to think that I was that dumb to
think that a new feature on the latest version of a browser was a "standard" :)

Finally, sheesh, that bookmark dragging thing is cool as beans!  Personally, I
could live without a go button knowing that!  You, sir, have made my day by
telling me about that.  This type of info should be disseminated.  It is a bit
counterintuitve to me... I would think that he bookmark icon would retain the
identity of the page currently loaded, not whatever is typed it the box at the time.

Thanks,
Ben

	Eli Goldberg
	Comment 4 • 25 years ago

Verified duplicate. Thanks, davidr8!