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grantcarthew
New member
Status: New idea

Often I am on a site and need to refresh the domain, not the page. A button to do this would be handy.

Here is an example of my current process:

1. I'm logged into a site and have left the page open for a while.
2. I need to refresh the site, not the page.
3. I select everything after the .com/.org/.au/.whatever which are the URL parameters, and delete them.
4. I then hit enter.

An example URL is this page I'm on now:
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/ideas
I would delete everything from after .org to the end of the address, then hit enter. The effective addres in this case would be:
https://connect.mozilla.org

I do the above ALL THE TIME.

It would be great to have a button between the security and SSL icons that would refresh the domain by doing as I have described above.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

jscher2000
Leader

Many websites have a "home" button or link for the site's home page, so it's probably never occurred to anyone that the browser would need that, too. Interesting.

 

grantcarthew
New member

That's an interesting point @jscher2000 - I think it comes down to "It's easier to use the Address Bar than to check the URL under links/icons/titles/etc".

I'm refreshing the site, not looking at the page. I may be scrolled down a heap, the top of the page is not visible, or more to the point, I don't want to look at the page. Just take me back to the start. Give me a reset button.