1136338 - CertManager: Make it less tedious to Delete/Distrust large numbers of entries

Status: NEW

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect, P5)

Description

[Matthew Gillen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150209172659

Steps to reproduce:

Open Certificate Manager (specifically, the "Authorities" tab), select an Authority, then hold shift and down arrow to multi-select a large group of CAs.  Then try to "Delete/Distrust" all of them at once.


Actual results:

Before v38, the Delete button did nothing if your selection included any "containers".  After v38 (tested with 39.0a1), the Delete button is disabled if containers are included in the multi-select.  (see bug 78808).  In both cases the result is that you can't delete any CAs if any containers are included in the selection.


Expected results:

I should be able to delete large numbers of CAs without having to Control-Click each one.  If I want to disable all the built-in CAs for example, it is extremely tedious.  

The original posting for bug 78808 had some suggestions for better behavior, repeated here for convenience:

-You should not be able to select the container by clicking on it.  

-When you select a range of certs to view, the containers should not be selected. 

-When you select a container (and no other certs), the View, Edit, and Delete
buttons should not be active.  They should be gray.

There are other options for how to fix this as well:
- Have a way (perhaps a config option) to just not show the "container level" at all
- Make the container selection imply "all children" (so a delete on the container deletes all the CAs in that container)

Comment 1

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

See also bug 585352 (that is, the "delete/distrust" terminology is at best misleading anyway).

Comment 2

[:Cykesiopka]

Confirming because deleting a large number of entries is indeed tedious; also morphing because if we fix the Authorities tab / CA case, it makes sense to fix the other tabs as well.

Comment 3

[Dana Keeler (she/her) (use needinfo) [:keeler] (on leave)]

This is probably more appropriate for an add-on, but we can keep it in mind if/when we do significant updates to the certificate manager.