When I go to the prefs dialog, I usually want to go back to the same panel that I was at last time (e.g. I'm messing with fonts, or link colors, and need to go back there). I think we should save the states of the twisties within a session, and perhaps between sessions. This is the basic usability issue of "things should stay as I left them". I realise that we show different prefs panels depending on where you go to the prefs from. A first cut at this would take me to the relevant prefs panel as now, but leave the twisties for other groupings expanded if I expanded them before. A better implementation might group prefs panels by component, and, if I'm opening the prefs dialog from the same component as before, take me back to the prefs panel that I last used.

ben

Changing platform

this is an issue on all platforms. why was this set back to Mac?

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-> samir

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I couldn't make myself wait for the one year anniv. to vote so I'm going to vote now.

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I too must vote for this bug. It is a great usability enhancement to the average end user (that and the hope one day that we will quit losing window focus - where did that window go anyway? ;)

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Judging by the activity on this bug, and the reoccurrance of the # of duplicates of the bug, I would like to suggest that the title and or other search criteria be adjusted to help find it. I did do a search before hand, and did not find this bug listed, which is why I filed 169701. The other suggestion, of course is to add the enhancement! :) Cheers to all

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I support this too. And yes, it was harder to find this issue by keywords than should be. I see this as annoyance, not a problem though.

Trying to make the summary less dup friendly (move to the fron what people will search for).

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After 4 years, could someone try to implement this probably small enhancement? It's not done in my Linux Mozilla 1.7.7 version.

FWIW, it's done in Firefox.

I think with FF 3 released we could consider Jamie's "FWIW" a little more heavily and close this bug. I think INVALID would be appropriate.