The items in the history sidebar panel should follow the same model used by other sidebar panels (Search, the new bookmarks panel) and load on a single click. In addition, folders should open and close on a single click. I'll be providing some CSS styles shortly to make the entries look like links rather than selectable tree items.

Since the other panels do this, sounds good to me.

as much as I'd like to fix this in mozilla 0.9, I am overloaded and must push this back a milestone. Sorry!

nav triage: pushing this back to mozilla0.9.2.

*** Bug 78306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

nav triage team: Pushing out to mozilla0.9.3, nice to have

nav triage: deferring to m1.0.

nav triage team: Need this to improve usability of history sidebar, keeping at mozilla1.0

See also bug 55553, Bookmarks/history in the sidebar should open with a single left click.

reassigning history bugs to new owner - send this bug back to me if it looks like something I should fix (such as embedding-related architecture issues), rather than the actual history owner...

This is leading to lots of confusion now that bookmarks work as expected, and is particularly bad for users who have set up their OS to use single-click instead of double-click. Blake, could you please either target this or reassign (probably to sgehani as sidebar owner)?

ben is handling such issues.

Ben, are you handling this?

argh! build ID 2002021403 on Mac OS X I've just fired up this build, and find that single-clicking an item in the history causes it to open in _content area. This is maddening when all I want to do is clear out cruft from my history list. Previously, I'd click on the first of a bunch of crufty URLs in a domain, and rest of the delete key to delete the whole mess of them. Now, they load, move focus around, etc. Ack! I use my history as a history of potentially usefull places I've been in the past 90 days. This means I clean out crap on a regular (daily) basis, and create bookmarks for things I want to keep longer than 90days. This "bug fix" is a major usability problem for me. What is the new prefered means to simply select a history entry (and keep focus over there)? I found this "bug" by searching for the bug I was about to report: single click on history sidebar item loads re-focuses instead of selecting Can this bug be un-"fixed"? -matt

this is maddening! Either the history sidebar is a useful tool for manipulating your history data (in which case this inability to select-and-keep-focus is Wrong) OR the history sidebar is a collection of links (in which case it should not attempt to provide history mgmt functions) (and in which case we need a "manage history" interface) The current condition is really schitzoid. :/ -matt

created bug 125558 in direct contradiction to this bug. The description points to this bug so folks can bounce back and forth between them. If bug 125558 is WONTFIX'ed then I'll put in an RFE bug for a history management interface. -matt

Um, I disagree. IE allows drag and drop rearranging and the ability to click the items, and it works fine. --> me

how about: icon is single-click selectable, drag-n-drop-able text (page title) is single-click-to-load link *and* text is rendered like a link (blue, underlined) re: items being dragable... 1) when I try to drag, before I mouse-up the page is loading. should it be the case that you have to load a URI in order to delete it from your history? this seems silly to me :/ If the icon were single-click-to-select then I'd be a happy camper. I just want some way to select a single item (so I can bookmark or delete) without having to load the durned thing again. It's in my history. I've been there. I don't need to load it again to know whether I want to keep it or not. ...maybe I'm a minority? -matt

Nav triage team: nsbeta1+

This is fixed. Handling any focus issues in another bug.

VERIFIED Fixed

I fear that with these changings the history sidebar loses the functionality to select and delete multiple items. Or is this functionality kept?

(In reply to comment #21) > I fear that with these changings the history sidebar loses the functionality to > select and delete multiple items. Or is this functionality kept? Oh. I thought that this is a firefox bug. But I think this is the same in Mozilla.