302620 - Simplify "Clear Private Data" functionality

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[José Jeria]

Build id:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050729
Firefox/1.0+

The Sanitize feature is a great feature that most of the browsers have. Even the
upcoming IE 7.

What I feel though that the implementation is not as simple as it should be. One
of the things that I love with Firefox is that it's very simple to use. Most of
teh geek stuff suite had are not in the GUI, but you can still modify it the way
you can via about:config.

The Sanitize feature implemented could be simplified by only having one dialog.
As it is now, it has 2, one to do the actual sanitization (tools/Sanitize
Firefox) and options for it (tools/options/sanitize settings...)

Why not one single dialog? Only keep the one under /tools/ and remove the one
under options.

Just take the "sanitize on shutdown" and move it to the Sanitize dialog under
/tools/

Imho this would minimize the amount of dialgos used in Firefox and make the
browser simpler.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Current implemetation - 2 dialogs

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Screenshot - one dialog solution

Comment 3

[Shayne Jewers]

I sorta agree with this, though there should be a button to just save settings
and not sanitize IMO.

Also if you have it set to sanitize on shutdown and ask you before doing it, the
button to not sanitize shouldn't be cancel IMO

Comment 4

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

*** Bug 311648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

The dialogs are poor at expressing their differences. The one in the pref panel sets the default settings for what should be cleared when the one in the tools menu is called. Using the exact same dialog causes confusion, here.

Really, the Clear Private Data settings should be their own prefpanel, and the tool should be a quick confirm-and-fire dialog.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 343131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 360549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I think as proposed, this should have been WONTFIX, but we've simplifed things a great deal for 3.5.

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

WFM now, I think, or WONTFIX is someone prefers.