285807 - Incluse a feature that lists messages that the user told not appear again.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050307 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050307 Firefox/1.0+

There are several features in Firefox that display pop-up alerts (or some other
form of an alert) to notify the user of something that occurred.  Several of
these notifications include an option to have the alert never appear again. 
While this is very useful, on thing that is lacking is an easy way to re-enable
these messages again if the user accidentally dismisses them or wants them back
again.

Two examples of these messages include:
The warning that appears when you try to close a window with multiple tabs open.
The yellow bar that appears when a pop-up is blocked.

A solution would involve having some kind of feature either included in the
options window, or via a link on the Tools menu that would show all of these
dismissed windows, notices, warnings, etc... and allow the user to re-enable
them, if they so desire.

In addition, perhaps a message could be included on some of these pop-ups to
notify the user of how they can re-enable the notices if they accidentally close
them.  Then again, I'm not sure if this would clutter the UI or not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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