History menu usability

[leodp]

Hi,

looks like my entry got cancelled due to some hiccup, so I re-post it.

When clicking in the menu entries  three lines->History to recover the recent history (after closing FF or some non-clean shutdowns of Windows) brings me directly with the mouse above the entry "Clear recent history".

This may cause an involuntary clicking on that entry, thus cancelling the previous session which I wanted to recover in the first place. Inadvertent clicking may be due to a double click triggered by lagging in updates of the user interface, or by a physical condition of the user, or for whatever reason.

This is, at least in my view, a weakness in interface design for usability.

"Clear recent history" should be better geographically segregated, suggested: at the bottom of "Recent history", with possibly a confirmation dialog.

Note: the History menu may appear differently in case of a FF crash (in that case a menu "Restore previous session" is offered in the main window), or in different devices, or whatever.

Behavior verified on FF 143 in Win11

[Jon]

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