1279720 - Require "Search Google for <message text selection>" feature from message reader context menu to be opt-in (to avoid accidental privacy violations)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[andy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160413222640

Steps to reproduce:

Select some text when reading an e-mail message and right click it. Accidentally let go of the mouse button on the "search xxxx for zzzz" option. This can happen for a variety of reasons because of screen size, mouse type, mouse malfunction, user error, and/or etc..


Actual results:

Personal e-mail text will be sent to the search provider unintentionally.


Expected results:

If someone really wants this feature, it should be a disabled by default, opt in feature in the preferences, not a mandatory feature that one cannot even turn off at all. E-mail is typically very private information. A very similar feature exits in firefox, however, for many people, 99.999% of the web pages that they view are already public information so an accidental click is not near as big of a privacy leak (compared to 99.999% of information in e-mail messages usually being private information). The other thing is the drop down menu on firefox is much shorter (has less options), so the risk of accidentally clicking on search is much lower.