1435471 - "View Certificates" button in options is incorrectly placed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1172499

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi]

Attachment: repurposed right-aligned buttons.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171218174357

Steps to reproduce:

Open the options->security dialog


Actual results:

The buttons to "view certificates" or "security devices" are right-aligned on the same line as the "Query OCSP" checkbox.


Expected results:

These buttons are not associated with OCSP stapling and should be on their own line (perhaps as links instead of buttons).

Everywhere else in the Firefox UI, a right-aligned button on the same line as a left-aligned checkbox means "further configure this feature" (see screenshot). As such, I experienced a cognitive difficulty in locating the "view certificates" button as rationally I expected this button to pertain to OCSP stapling. It was only after failing to find any other option that would allow me to do manage Firefox's certificates that I attempted to click this button.

Firefox's UI should follow a consistent model that enables user to anticipate the behavior of the browser when a button is interacted with. Inconsistencies like these hinder users from effectively using the browser and negatively affect both the user experience and the native fit/polish of the browser.

Comment 1

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi]

Attachment: expected purpose of right-aligned buttons.png

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

Duplicate of bug 1172499 via bug 1386157.