From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010214 BuildID: 2001021404 When a user stays at a URL for a specified amount of time (yet another pref hehe ;), and the mouse is not hovering over any nav- or toolbar, the navbar and taskbar should become transparent, with the website shining thru. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Goto any website 2. Move mouse into a content area (eg., not into the menus etc.) Actual Results: Nothing :) Expected Results: Make taskbar and other bars (not scrollbars tho ;) transparent. I'm not sure if this rates too high on the sillyness scale. Would be neat to have as a mozilla "show-off" feature, though :-)

Confirming enhancement request.

er, confirming for real

If mozilla ever looked like that i'd file a bug for sure. I notice you scrolled the page: What if the page isn't scrolled? What should then display behind the menus?

These kinds of suggestions are best worked out in the newsgroups. Were this in the newsgroups I would respond with a "please no!" comment or a "where's the code" comment. Since this is a completely bluesky request with no code and at this stage is more of an implementation problem than a UI problem and it has little (no) chance of being implemented in the near or long terms I propose it be assigned to the reporter or nobody until the reporter or some other volunteer steps up to offer the code for consideration at which time we may need additional bugs on usability problems caused by said code, most of which I believe would be sufficient to block the implementation of the feature. Anyone think I'm way off here?

Yes. I recommend a "WONT". A "feature" like this wouldn't only be bloat - it would make the browser look like shit. If anyone wants something like this - make a semi-transparent theme instead. It certainly shouldn't be made part of the browser in any way.

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

dup of bug 40795?

I WANT TRANSPARENT AND 2D SCROLLBARS

STOP SHOUTING AND GET CODING THEN

- If the user could see part of the html under topbar, then moving mouse will display topbar and not html ! He then will have to scroll to see that part. - The top part of the navigator dont take 90% of the screen so you dont need to set transparency there. - What happen if the user didnt scroll - How do you read the current url ? - Do you think its really easy to read top part of the screen with transparency ? so for a skin why not but for mozilla NO! -> WONTFIX

Snarky, aren't we? :) It was meant more as a fun, eye-candy "feature", no need to plunge into the depths of usability studies to justify reasons for NOT implementing this.

Ok then. RESOLVED SNARKILY.