285818 - Configuration of extentions is inconsistent -- adblock specifically

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[micheas herman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)

Specifically, Adblock allows you to click on the Adblock logo in the bottom
right corner of the browser and remove items from display allowing wild cards,
but if you make a mistake you cannot undo the mistake from this locatation, but
instead navigate from the menus to get to the adblock preferences.

There should be a standard, which admittedly may not be followed, to guide
developers of extentions in what the UI standards are for Firefox. This should
include the ability to undo any changes at the same place you made the chage.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Adblock
2. click on Adblock logo
3. block item
4  click on Adblock logo

Actual Results:  
There is an item blocked and no way to undo the change in this location

Expected Results:  
There should have been an option to undo the change from this location.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Extensions feedback should go to extensions authors, not in bugzilla.

"There should be a standard, which admittedly may not be followed, to guide
developers of extentions in what the UI standards are for Firefox."
There should be, you're welcome to go ahead and write it, and then spread the
word to extensions developers (and possibly help them implement things like
undo, which are not always that trivial to implement).

If you like, you may file a bug specifically about it in Documentation product,
but I don't think it'll help unless you're going to actually work on it.