238407 - [website] Describe some popular users.js prefs on the website

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, enhancement)

Description

[Stuart Morgan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: 

Currently, the Camino prefs page at:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/docs/profileprefs.html
doesn't give any user.js prefs. Putting a list of some of the supported prefs
(with descriptions) that are potentially useful enough to make people aware of
them, but not general enough to put in the UI, would be a good compromise
solution between flexibility and pref bloat.

I'm thinking specifically of user_pref("network.cookie.lifetime.enabled", true)
from bug 174070, but I would imagine there are other prefs of a similar nature
that could be added as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true) from bug 172718 is another
candidate; it's very tricky to make a clear pref for it (without a lot of
javascript handling as well, since the end user doesn't care what makes
something open in a new window) but a useful feature nonetheless.

Comment 2

[adam rice]

A few suggestions on cookies:
1. I'm not sure who would be willing to accept one cookie from a site but not another; rather than ask 
for all cookies, ask for all sites. The response to the first cookie will be taken as the response to all 
from that site.

2. In the "ask" dialog for cookies, have three buttons to respond: Deny, Accept for now, Accept long-
term (or words to that effect). "Accept for now" would discard the cookie upon quit (or after one hour, 
or whatever) and ideally, this preference would be saved for the site.

3. There should be a "Deny from off-site" cookies option.

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

1 & 2 are bug 173521 (which could potentially be re-opened for consideration)

3 is likely to be addressed in bug 182540

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Stuart why don't you write the page and attach it here so we can publish it on 
mozilla.org ?

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

I'll get the page written soon. In the mean time, notes about other candidates
for the page:
bug 178944 (browser.cache.disk.capacity, should probably be GUI eventually but
listed until then)
maybe bug 149434 (browser.display.screen_resolution) if it does indeed work

Also, network.cookie.lifetime.enabled is obsolete, so the new pref should be
listed instead.

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

this should probably be linked off the "tips and tricks" page available from the
help menu.

Comment 7

[Stuart Morgan]

Other possibilities:
wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride, if we add support for it
the favicon disabling pref

Comment 8

[Stuart Morgan]

Giving my bugs back to pink.

Comment 9

[Jasper]

reassigning to me, I already have a great deal of this done.

Comment 10

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Jasper, this is fixed now with the new website, right?

Comment 11

[Jasper]

Yep, closing bug.

Comment 12

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

Moving [Website] bugs to new "Product Site" component.