1430459 - Regression : Setting "Warn you when websites try to redirect or reload the page" unavailable in preferences

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Thomas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20180103231032

Steps to reproduce:

Go to preferences, search for "Warn you when websites try to redirect or reload the page" --> Nothing found

I used preferences search engine as since Firefox 56 preference page has been "reorganized" (disordered ?) and now all preferences are chaotically displayed on one single page and are therefore nearly impossible to find manually.

Pages are reloading and redirecting without warn.


Actual results:

When Firefox preferences where still properly organized and categorized (Firefox 55 if I remember correctly), this option was located in Options > Advanced > Warn you when websites try to redirect or reload the page.


Expected results:

The option should be put back in its place in Firefox preferences page.

When this option is on Firefox should display a warning at the top of a page trying to reload itself or to redirect.

Comment 1

[Thomas]

Attachment: 2017-07-07-10-37-37-8211b9.png

Screenshot of the option from Mozilla documentation

Comment 2

[Thomas]

I think this option is very important, especially in terms of accessibility. For people who read slowly, reloading the page is very disturbing. The problem is also present if a redirection is too fast (after a few seconds) and the person has not had time to read the reason for the redirection.

Comment 3

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

This option was removed after careful consideration. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365133#c260 explains the rationale behind this change. I'm sorry that this has been confusing for you. You can go to about:config and set the preference accessibility.blockautorefresh to true to use this feature.