Session history != global browser history. The back/forward buttons don't get you anything outside of the current tab's session.
Amanda's point about fitts' law is another good one. The History menu is an easy way to get to something you visited recently with one click (vs. the alternative of opening a new tab with history, scrolling down, then hunting in the window for what you're looking for). Opening up a new tab is also a huge context switch for the user as they have to hide what they're currently looking at to peruse it. We have the real-estate in the menubar, we should use it providing we can come up with a reasonable presentation that isn't too overwhelming. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Mark Larson (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > Just so it's clear to me... why do we need a History menu? > There's a link to history from the wrench menu/Ctrl+H and also from the New > Tab page. > The > back button provides at least 12 entries from the back history for the current tab. That seems more than > adequate for the 'jump back a few steps in my click trail' use case. > --Mark > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 20:14, Amanda Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Robert Sesek <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think that Firefox's implemntation makes the most sense from a >> > usability perspective. Those long menus in Safari are next to >> > worthless if you have a decent-sized browsing history and really just >> > clutter things up. Camino's implemntation isn't bad, either. That >> > being said, I think 10 is too few items to include in the menu, and >> > I'd like to see 15-20. >> > >> > Where do other people stand on this? >> >> I actively dislike long and hierarchical menus--for extended browsing, >> we have a "History" link off of the new tab page for history browsing >> & searching. >> >> However, a history menu with, say, the 10-15 most recent pages is >> convenient for "go back a few steps in my click trail". More than 15 >> or or so gets hard to pick from at a glance, though. >> >> --Amanda >> >> > > > > > -- Mike Pinkerton Mac Weenie [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
