Closed Bug 161749 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

finish tearing prefs UI to pieces and then make it not suck

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(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
Phoenix0.5

People

(Reporter: pach, Assigned: bugzilla)

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Proposed visual tweak to Options window
35.26 KB, image/png
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Shows the description of "Download Manager History"
78.74 KB, image/jpeg
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When selecting the Fonts preference panel, it shows the following error:

  XML Parsing error: undefined entity
  Location: chrome://browser/content/pref/pref-fonts.xul
  Line Number 313, Column 21:

  <caption label="&someProvColors;"/>
  --------------------^

The file seems to be

  mozilla/browser/components/prefwindow/content/pref-fonts.xul

Is this a bug?  Or it's just not finished yet?
Not finished yet. Massive destruction happening in prefs. We probably don't need
any more bugs for these problems since it's still a demolition zone in prefs.
Blake, this is all you, man.

old summary was "fonts preference panel broken in Phoenix"
new summary is "finish tearing prefs UI to pieces and then make it not suck"

This bug can cover the work of the first pass where we get each of the prefs we
want visible to be visible and working. Later we will accept individual bugs for
broken or otherwise not correctly implemented prefs UI.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: fonts preference panel broken in Phoenix → finish tearing prefs UI to pieces and then make it not suck
Is this really Linux-specific?
Blocks: 125567
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
No longer blocks: 125567
Target Milestone: --- → Phoenix0.1
*** Bug 167183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 169300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: Phoenix0.1 → Phoenix0.2
*** Bug 170511 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 170535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Proxy UI readded.  Some advanced panels readded.  Still work in progress.
*** Bug 170901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Done with prefs work for 0.2.
Target Milestone: Phoenix0.2 → Phoenix0.3
*** Bug 172553 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In addition to the proxy preference panel, there also needs to be a UI control
for network.http.proxy.version (e.g. Use HTTP/1.0 for proxy connections (default
= true)".
Target Milestone: Phoenix0.3 → Phoenix0.4
Preferences UI -> Connection -> Proxy Configuration

A button to specify that a specified proxy should be used for all protocols
would make the task of proxy configuration more user friendly. This feature
exists in IE.
*** Bug 173156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 173670 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 174187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I don't know, if there is a bug filed for this - I couldn't find one - but the 
'Enable Images/for the originating web site only' check box in 
Preferences/Advanced/Images doesn't work.
Forgot my system information:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021014 Phoenix/0.3

Sorry for the spam.
*** Bug 174556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Umm, I don't completely agree with Asa's resolution of bug 174556. See that bug
for further comments...
*** Bug 174757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 174850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Made cookie prefs work.  Almost done with this bug...
Target Milestone: Phoenix0.4 → Phoenix0.5
*** Bug 175609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Has anyone else experienced not being able to check/uncheck the two sub-options
under "Enable cookies" in the Privacy panel?  This was on Linux (Mandrake 9.0,
specifically).  I can click there, and they blink gray, but immediately revert
to unchecked state.  It's been like this since version 0.2.

This also occurs with the option beneath "Enable images" in the Images panel
under Advanced.

A ui pref to disable favicons.  They waste bandwidth, add to bloat, and distract
the eye.  They can currently be disabled with user.js.

Choosing to start a new window on a blank page should not display "ahout:blank."
 That text can be deleted from the pref menu, but it shouldn't be there anyway.
Zennify that blankness, baby.  There's nothing to say about it.  Oh, and perhaps
this is a separate issue, but if I load a new tab and the url bar is truly
blank, but then I switch tabs, when I come back to the blank tab it will say
"about:blank" in the url field.

Disable link prefetching.  If it's on by default (as it seems to be) add a ui
for it. Imagine somebody on a discussion board prefetching god knows what
obscenity or huge trollsom file--I'll spare you the link to the slashdot
comment, but it has been done.

Allow memory size to be set in ui. 4096 ought to be enough for any one, but I
get better performance with huge memory and small cache.

And because you can't implement a ui for every pref, clean up about:config . 
There are for instance mail prefs that have nothing to do with Phoenix.
Shawn, this is not the place to voice advocacy about what prefs you think should
be set to what defaults and which ones you think should be exposed in UI. Please
keep your "me too" and advocacy comments out of Bugzilla. A more appropriate
forum would be the Phoenix forums at mozillaZine.org.  If you're not helping
with technical issues in fixing a bug then your comments don't belong in
Bugzilla. THanks.
*** Bug 175803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 177432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 177466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 177487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 177551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
closing this bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I downloaded the latest nightly (12 Nov 2002) and checked out the Preferences
Dialog. I can't check the "Advanced->Images->General->Enable Images-> For the
originating website only" checkbox with my mouse. Comment #16 reports the same
problem.
I'm not sure whether it would be more obnoxious for me to reopen this
myself, or to drop a metoo comment in it.

And I'm running Phoenix on Solaris 7/GCC 2.95.3, which is not among
the "real" platforms people seem to be discussing for Phoenix.

That said, I can confirm comment #16 and comment #33 as of 20021112.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021112 Phoenix/0.4
The image pref may not be strictly a UI issue.  Even when set in user.js
(and confirmed in about:config), offsite images are loaded.

For example:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=World&cat=Iraq

The image at the upper right and the adds are all from other domains, but
they are being loaded.

The checkbox in the UI is now apparently permanently selected.
Why is this marked RESOLVED FIXED?  This bug -- at least the part where the
"Enable Images For The Originating Website Only" checkbox is permanently
unchecked in the Win9x version -- still existed as of the last nightly binary. 
Is the bug "fixed" as in "made permanent", or am I confused?
The white box that contains the the icons in the Options window (General,
Privacy, etc.) is 1 pixel too short. When the bottom section, Connection, is
active, it has 1 pixel of white padding around it on the right and left, but is
flush with the bottom of the box. It should have 1 pixel of white padding at
the bottom as well (see attached screenshot).
VERIFIED Latest Nightly as of Today
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Have anyone noticed the following description under Options->Privacy->Download
Manager History?

"The Download Manager keeps track of recently downloaded files. XXXben-blake, we
need at the very least a toggle here, probably a retention window as well."

I am sure this wasn't supposed to be there and could have been missed during the
overhaul. I'm using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030708 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6

An Attachment (jpg file) indicates the problem I've mentioned.
The XXXben thing in the options dialog is bug 204134.
See also bug 205276 for the feature that needs to be added.
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