Open Bug 255199 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Provide consistent notification of blocked content (Popups, Installs, Images, Cookies, etc...)

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(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement

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(Reporter: richwklein, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+

Currently there are several different ways a user is notified of blocked
content.  For Popups its a statusbar icon and a browser message, for installs it
a browser message, for images its a context menu item, and there is no
notification for cookies.  When bug 240070 lands there will be several other
types of content that could be blocked.  I suggest a common way of notifying the
user of blocked content should be developed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




I think both the statusbar icon and browser message are a good way to notify the
user.  Using this combination may be an issue though if multiple content is
blocked at the same time for a site.  Also it would be good if the user could
allow the blocked content for one time, the message should be closable, and the
should be keyboard access to it.
Adding dependancy to "Add nsIContentPolicy <> nsIPermissionManager general glue"
Depends on: 240070
(In reply to comment #1)
> Adding dependancy to "Add nsIContentPolicy <> nsIPermissionManager general
glue" object has been blocked happens on sites that I was able to download files
from last week. I have windows xp with ie6, and I'm on a direct access connection.

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I agree that there should be a consistent method for notification of blocked
content, but that method should be the statusbar and icon now used for blocked
popups.  Mozilla interrupts the user with needless modal dialogs too often already.
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Depends on: 217199
Severity: normal → S3
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