1065033 - Enhancement to move block images options to Options/Preferences > Tabs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

Currently there is a feature in Page info that provides a checkbox to disable media from a website. This includes all media loaded on the page and it stays in preferences for that page until it is "forgotten" from about:permissions. 

When a developer wants to include place holders for images or block images in a webpage when editing/developing a site in Firefox, this feature is not easily found. Currently the impression is that it is a feature that is in the about:config page. 

Moving this to a more obvious place would make it easier to use for both developers. 

Change: 
Make a ui options to toggle permissions.default.image and each of the options.

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I don't think this feature really works well for even developer usage, at least in its current form. It's more of a historical left-over we've slowly been removing (eg bug 514739), since per-site permanent image blocking is more of a footgun for users than a useful feature.

So this seems like a WONTFIX as filed. But if there's a compelling use case, maybe developer tools could implement it better (eg as a temporary "disable image loading" mode).

I don't really understand your usecase, though. Why would you want to block placeholder images? Seems like that would be likely to cause problems with page layout.