282231 - All zone settings in one window

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Hish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I know that Ben is currently finishing the 1.1 prefernces update but maybe this
would be something to keep in mind:
Currently you see a separate domain list for these options:
- Block Popup Windows
- Allow web sites to install software
- Load Images

I suggest to merge these three settings (and maybe a complete zone modell later)
into one list like this:
Domain       | Block Popup Windows | Allow installation | Load images
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
mozilla.org  | no                  | yes                | yes
microsoft.com| yes                 | no                 | no
etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Some people might like this, but we'd also have to include Cookies as well, and
then you end up with a case where unless the lists are exactly the same, you end
up with one list of 100 sites with four attributes, instead of 4 lists of 25
with a single attribute, for example.  Its just a bit of information overload,
IMO, an not really that beneficial.  (You're probably not going to block images
from the site you allow popups or installs from, for example).

Comment 2

[Hish]

Though I agree that it won't be useful to have a long mostly empty list, I don't
think that cookies fit in here because cookies are set automatically or by a
simple user confirmation. So you have to treat cookies on another place anyway.
Also keep in mind that FF still lacks a zone modell which IMO is an absolute
most sooner or later. And at least then you're dealing with several right per
domain.
Reconsider your position and then kill this proposal finally ;-)

Comment 3

[Hish]

I forgot one point. 
The mozilla.org/ms.com example was no joke. 
It's likely that a user wants to do exactly this: Allowing/disallowing features
from a page in one go.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

If/when we implement a real zone model, we may do something like this, but this
as it stands just doesn't present a user advanatage, as I said.  Cookies also
has an Exceptions model, so it would be confusing to leave it out of the equation.

There will be per-site settings UI at some point so that you can configure these
settings for the current site from a single UI, but that's different.

Comment 5

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't
> think that cookies fit in here because cookies are set automatically or by a
> simple user confirmation.
Cookies are set just as automaticly as images are loaded or popups are opened.
No difference there. The only difference is that the user doesn't see the
cookies, but he does see the popup. But that won't justify a seperate manager imo.

Comment 6

[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