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(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #13)
> Benefits over the current Nightly behavior:
> - Users get a low-friction way to reject these prompts, think through the implications, and then try again (as in my STR here)
> - It's clearer to users what is going to happen (and which actions will/won't be "sticky")
> - It's clearer to users that quitting & restarting Firefox might be a useful workaround, if the user asks Firefox to block requests and then changes their mind (and this doesn't feel as much like "hmm, I guess Firefox broke when I tapped Cancel" and instead feels more like "hmm, I guess Firefox was respecting my expressed intent to stop the site from popping up additional prompts")

I like this idea.  But the problem here is if the user ticked "don't ask me again" we need to keep that preference permanent.  Right now we don't keep it in memory.  By saving this preference permanent, we need to give user a option to clear that preference, or mange these preferences.

Both of these involves new UX designs.

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #13)
> Benefits over the current Nightly behavior:
> - Users get a low-friction way to reject these prompts, think through the implications, and then try again (as in my STR here)
> - It's clearer to users what is going to happen (and which actions will/won't be "sticky")
> - It's clearer to users that quitting & restarting Firefox might be a useful workaround, if the user asks Firefox to block requests and then changes their mind (and this doesn't feel as much like "hmm, I guess Firefox broke when I tapped Cancel" and instead feels more like "hmm, I guess Firefox was respecting my expressed intent to stop the site from popping up additional prompts")

I like this idea.  But the problem here is if the user ticked "don't ask me again" we need to keep that preference permanent.  Right now we keep it in memory but once Firefox restarts it's forgotten.  By saving this preference permanent, we need to give user a option to clear that preference, or mange these preferences.

Both of these involves new UX designs.

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #13)
> Benefits over the current Nightly behavior:
> - Users get a low-friction way to reject these prompts, think through the implications, and then try again (as in my STR here)
> - It's clearer to users what is going to happen (and which actions will/won't be "sticky")
> - It's clearer to users that quitting & restarting Firefox might be a useful workaround, if the user asks Firefox to block requests and then changes their mind (and this doesn't feel as much like "hmm, I guess Firefox broke when I tapped Cancel" and instead feels more like "hmm, I guess Firefox was respecting my expressed intent to stop the site from popping up additional prompts")

I like this idea.  But the problem here is if the user ticked "don't ask me again" we need to keep that preference permanent.  Right now we keep it in memory but once Firefox restarts it's forgotten.  By saving this preference permanent, we need to give user an option to clear that preference, or mange these preferences.

Both of these involves new UX designs.