296258 - Need separate prefs for remote images in mail and feeds (can't disable remote images in feeds)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 344094

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[John Navas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0+ (20050531) [nightly trunk build]

Would very much like to have an option for RSS like "Block loading of remote
images for mail messages."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display an RSS item with remote images
Actual Results:  
Remote images always displayed.

Expected Results:  
Display small placeholder instead of remote images when option to block is enabled.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[John Navas]

Please keep this open.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 262611, which is marked as wontfix.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 312110, "Separate options for enabling JavaScript in mail and RSS
feeds".

Comment 5

[John Navas]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262611 ***

Comment 6

[Chris Beck]

This bug has been re-opened.  Just don't want anyone reading the last commented failing to notice that.

Comment 7

[Ben]

I agree that there should be a separate setting for blocking remote images in RSS messages.

In addition, when subscribed to the *article summary* (not the whole HTML page) all remote thingies should *always* be blocked independent from that setting. RSS providers use remote empty images in the article summaries to track the RSS activity, and that is a privacy issue.