232816 - Implement Link Filter / Content Filter Rules (parental controls)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andreas Klauer]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

A feature I haven't seen so far in any browser: a link filter

Similar to a spamfilter, that puts bogus mails straight into the trashcan, I'd
like to have a filter system that does the same with links to bogus webpages. By
bogus links I mean links that a normal user would never want to click on.

Examples for bogus links:
- advertisement banners
- sponsors
- links to porn pages
- links to weird cgi scripts
- ...

I think it would be a great feature if a browser could just hide such links, by
following a list of rulesets (simple RegExps would be sufficient for me). Surely
everybody has noticed that more and more pages get filled with junk banners and
stuff. I want to allow my browser to hide such page content from me (or replace
it with some kind of symbol so that I know something is hidden there).

It would make browsing a lot faster, because:
- banner images don't have to be loaded
- 'real' links wouldn't be hidden under loads of bogus ones
- You Only See What You Want To See

A more general filter, that does not only allow to filter links, but Images, or
HTML Contents in general would be great, too.

It could also help to restrict browsing features for children. Don't allow links
that contain 'xxx', '****', etc. and most porn pages won't work anymore... or
hide/disallow 'bad language' in general.

It would be great to see some development in that direction :-) In my opinion,
it would be a great new feature for a browser that already contains a whole lot
of great new features :-)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[Robin Monks]

*** Bug 271451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 297380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[es1010]

FireFox should have built into the system the ability to blacklist / whitelist certain web pages.  I don't understand why this is not build into the product like Internet Explorer Content Advisor.   When there is an update you have to wait for an add-on to filter webpages. Since the last update of FF the only addon's you have to sign up for the service to use it.  This is very frustrating.  I realize there are other ways but it seems like a simple feature that could be added onto FF.   BlockSite addon  by Noel Briggs  worked ok but it hasn't been upgraded for the new FF.  How Blocksite is setup should be added to the Options -> Security area in FF.

Comment 6

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

The content blocker can be extended to block more than just images...

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We do have some bugs tracking integration with OS-level parental controls (e.g. bug 355555), but we won't build that kind of functionality into Firefox itself. There are add-ons that attempt to address this use case, I think.