279951 - Profiles for Web Features

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stasys Adiklis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

It would be good to be able to define Web Features profiles and be able to
switch between them easily. For example: one normal and another with heavy
features (Java, images, other plugins (Flash, Real video, etc.)) switched off.

Then it could make sense to allow to activate those disabled elements
idividually. E.g. click on a Flash of image placeholder to load it.

This RFE is in response to WONTFIX of another (way heavier) RFE: bug 279754.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[henri]

I had a probleme with firefox: I couldn't start it without a new profiles. I
create a new one and now i have lost all my bookmarks and evrything. And I can
not find my old profile.

P.S. I speak french but understand english...

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

see bug bug 279754#c1
This is what a very selected group of users would ever user.