110363 - Image manager UI for fine-grained blocking (not just by site)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, enhancement)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    20011114

The Preferences window needs more options to manage images to be blocked.

You should be able to add new as well as edit blocked images.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Edit - Preferences
2.  Select Privacy & Security and then Images
3.  Click View Image Permissions


Actual Results:  Only has Remove buttons

Expected Results:  Needs add and edit buttons

The reasoning for this is say I only want to block images in a certain section
of a site or even just block a single image, then I can just add this to the
list in the preferences or edit a current on.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 109810, "Way to manually add to Passwords never saved list in 
passwordmanager".

-> XP Apps, since several other image manager bugs are in that component.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

that's odd, i thought there was an Image Manager component added recently. or,
perhaps i somehow missed it...? ;)

->morse/tpreston

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Creating an "image manager" component in bugzilla is bug 107310.

Comment 4

[Kevin Ar18]

Possible way to edit the current Image Manager (based on bug 109810 mentioned 
above).

+-------------------------------------------------------+
|Image Manager                                        |X|
+-------------------------------------------------------+
|_[Image Sites]_________________________________________|
| Internet websites from which images are not fetched.  |
|                                                       |
| +------------------------+--------------------------+ |
| | Site                   | Status                   | |
| +------------------------+--------------------------+ |
| |www.mozilla.org         | does not load images     | |
| |www.mozilla.org/gif/    | loads image(s)           | |
| |www.mozilla.org/cool.gif| loads image(s)           | |
| |:                                                  | |
| +---------------------------------------------------+ |
| [Add]  [Edit]  [Remove] [Remove All]                  |
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|                                       [ OK  ] [Cancel]|
+-------------------------------------------------------+

Basically the idea behind all of this is that it would block all images from 
www.mozilla.org except for images in the /gif/ folder and subdirectories or the 
specific cool.gif.

By allowing so called EXCEPTIONS a user can customize and chose what they need 
to block like in order to block certain ads but allow regular site images 
through.

SUGGESTED RULES:
1.  Sites should be listed by domain (and alphabetically second)  IE, 
images.mozilla.org should be right before www.mozilla.org and not after 
www.google.com.  This way a user can keep easy track of exceptions to the rule 
for example they have images blocked on part of the site and allowed on other 
parts.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 112510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Adam Hauner]

Plat: PC -> All, OS: Win98 -> All

Comment 7

[Alfonso Martinez]

This feature has already been requested as bug 33467 "Cookie/Image Manager
should allow direct entry of entries to reject/allow"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33467 ***

Comment 8

[Terri Preston]

Verified Duplicate

Comment 9

[benc]

REOPEN:

Comment 10

[benc]

requests for domain/hostname entry should go to bug 89904.
This bug is for more specific types of filtering.

Comment 11

[benc]

*** Bug 129489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

I guess this is a UI bug for the feature requested in bug 78104

Comment 13

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 282774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Kevin Ar18]

I think this bug can be closed down as RESOLVED -> WONTFIX

Looking back, the kind of features I was looking for are now served by adblock's fine-grained control.
It might be nice if Firefox built in such fine-grained control, but that's really a big topic that should be dealt with separate from my rather simplistic suggestion I offered here.  I would like to close this report for no longer being relevant, but just wanted to look for any feedback before I did. :)

Comment 15

[Kevin Ar18]

See Comment 14

If you really would like it reopened, feel free to do so.  However, personally, I think if Firefox really wanted to add something like this, it should be something more powerful like adblock's ability to handle both whitelists, blacklists, page elements, and regular expressions.