1782251 - Show a reminder that a hidden preference has been altered or created

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[08xjcec48]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Steps to reproduce:

Set general.useragent.override and forget about it.

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20220729153924/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/wb5ply/looking_to_switch_back_to_firefox_but/

Actual results:

If the custom user agent isn't updated over time, sites will start appearing to be broken for no apparent reason, and both the user and support volunteers might spend a long time trying to figure out the root of the problem.

Expected results:

Firefox could show a reminder that a general.useragent.override has been set.

This reminder could have the option "Disable this reminder until the next Firefox update," and then be displayed again after the user updates Firefox. That way, the user will remember to manually update the custom user agent, if necessary, or delete it.

Comment 1

[08xjcec48]

This could be done for all other critical preferences too, especially the ones that the user needs to create manually.

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Hi,

Thank you for opening this enhancement. I will set this as New and waiting for the developer's opinion about it.

Thanks for your report.