248635 - Awkward text in Tools->Options->Privacy header

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Thomas Covello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

On the Tools->Options->Privacy header, the following awkward text is displayed:
"As you browse the web, information about where you have been, what you have
done, etc is kept in the following areas:"
This description sounds rather paranoid. I suggest replacing it with:
"Some Web sites store information on your computer to optimize your browsing
experience. You can adjust which information is kept here."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Confirming, and blocking bug 214267

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the whole panel's going to be gone anyway... not sure what to do with this bug
until that happens :)

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

The description mentioned in comment 0 might fit for Cookies.
But in the other areas, not a web site but the browser itself which stores
information like passwords, form info etc.

Comment 4

[Worcester12345]

I think this text is fine as is.

Comment 5

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Attachment: Change text to "Firefox stores information about your browsing in the following areas:"

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Comment on attachment 156118 [details] [diff] [review]
Change text to "Firefox stores information about your browsing in the following areas:"

Requesting review from mconnor to get this bug either fixed or closed for
good...because it's a l10n change I'll request blocking-aviary1.0PR? in a
second.

If the wording isn't good, I'd suggest simply removing the text, because it
serves almost no purpose.

Comment 7

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Attachment: Remove the description - alternate to attachment 156118

The more I think about it, the more I think simply removing the description is
the better solution.  This patch removes the <description/> and the
corresponding entity.  It's still up to devs to decide.

Comment 8

[chris hofmann]

sorry, we are just about out of time for PR with a large backlog of more crtical
bugs. sounds like this will come in mconners changes for next release.

Comment 9

[Seth Schoen]

If the text is preserved as it is, the string "etc" should be corrected to
"etc."; see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbreviations_in_use_in_1911

Also, there should probably be a comma after "etc.".

Comment 10

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Comment on attachment 156390 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove the description - alternate to attachment 156118 [details] [diff] [review]

These may be completely obsoleted by the new options window, or they may still
be valid as ideas.  In any case, the code itself will be hopelessly broken, so
it's time to take a "wait and see" attitude.

Comment 11

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

The text is the same in new Options window.

Comment 12

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

> [e-mail] changed:
I swear I didn't change that. I believe the current values are what they were
before I commented, so I won't revert them back.

Comment 13

[Steffen Wilberg]

There's a "View Bug Activity" link, you know...

Comment 14

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I know, but if my memory serves me well, there were priority and target
milestone set. Oh well, enough bugspam for today.

Comment 15

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 16

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

happy for bugspam, long-overdue closure.