Comment 53 for bug 733349

Have to agree with the commenters that clicking should minimise the app. I may want to quickly glance at something in Firefox, whilst, say, working in the terminal. I click a nice largish icon on the dock to bring Firefox to the front, read some text, then I should be able to click the icon again to minimise. Instead I have to move the mouse up to the top of the screen (I have a large monitor) and move to the minimise button which, compared to icons in the dock, is very small and requires a far higher level of accuracy with the mouse. This takes so much more time.

I understand the comments about users' expected behaviour with dock and taskbar icons and I agree to an extent. I'm not against changing default behaviours if there is a good reason for it, however I don't understand why forcing users to use a little minimise button, instead of a big friendly icon is a change for the better. To say that there is a minimise button in the app window isn't really a reason. There was *always* a minimise button there yet people generally prefer to click on the taskbar icon to maximise and minimise apps. Users will always take the path of least resistance, the way that requires the minimum effort, so they'll pick a large icon over a small button every time.