[Bug 307377] Re: Firefox 3.0 needs to show 'Icons and Text' by default in the toolbar

[Brett Alton]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
  
  Since Dapper, Ubuntu has removed the text from Firefox's toolbar to save
  space on 800x600 resolution monitors (or so I once read).
  
- I think to be consistent with the rest of GNOME (especially with System
- > Preferences > Appearance > Interface > Toolbar Button Labels), Firefox
- should show 'Text and Icons' in its toolbar by default. Why? I believe
- it is less confusing to new uses who do not understand what the icons
- mean fully. They need text re-enforcement to remind them that the blue,
- 270 degree icon means refresh. Not everyone knows this off the bat or
- remembers it every day.
+ Meanwhile, this goes against how the rest of the GNOME applications
+ appear in Ubuntu (the preferences are set at: System > Preferences >
+ Appearance > Interface > Toolbar Button Labels), Firefox should show
+ 'Text and Icons' in its toolbar by default. Why? I believe it is less
+ confusing to new uses who do not understand what the icons mean fully.
+ They need text re-enforcement to remind them that the blue, 270 degree
+ icon means refresh. Not everyone knows this off the bat or remembers it
+ every day.
  
  Plus, according to "System > Preferences > Appearance > Interface >
  Toolbar Button Labels", all programs should have text below the icons.
  
  If saving space in Firefox is an absolute must, then why not get rid of
- the "Bookmarks Toolbar"? I think you need higher intelligence to use the
- "Bookmarks Toolbar" than to use the forward and back button, the reload
- button and the home button and I do not believe it is safe to assume.
- Let the user find the "Bookmarks Toolbar" if they want to use it. Most
- people I know that use bookmarks often know how to use an internet
- browser enough to be able to re-enable the "Bookmarks Toolbar".
+ the "Bookmarks Toolbar"? I think more advanced users use the "Bookmarks
+ Toolbar" than to use the forward and back button, the reload button and
+ the home button and I do not believe it is safe to assume that everyone
+ knows what those icons mean. Let the user find the "Bookmarks Toolbar"
+ if they want to use it. Most people I know that use bookmarks often know
+ how to use an internet browser enough to be able to re-enable the
+ "Bookmarks Toolbar".
  
  Lastly, with Firefox 3.0's new features, you can access bookmarks by
  searching them in the "Address Bar" and save them using the new "star
  button". The "awesome bar", I think is what they call it. This means
  that bookmarks get double the attention and the buttons that actually
  run Firefox gets less.
- 
- Sorry, I know this is a mixture of arguments (intelligence of the user,
- compliance with GNOME), but this is just coming from a computer
- technician who works with teachers and school staff every day.

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Firefox 3.0 needs to show 'Icons and Text' by default in the toolbar
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307377
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