304347 - Misleading help text about Sanitize in Preferences > Privacy

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Christian Schmidt]

In the bottom of the Privacy section of the Preferences window there is a text
saying:

"Sanitize automatically removes privacy information when you use a keyboard
shortcut or close Firefox."

If I open the Sanitize Settings window, the checkbox "Sanitize Firefox on
shutdown" is NOT selected. In this case the "or close Firefox" part of the help
text should be omitted.

I also think that "a keyboard shortcut" is unnecessarily confusing. Mentioning
the specific shortcut key (Ctrl+Shift+Del) would be better.

By default Sanitize doesn't do anything on its own, so I would suggest a wording
that indicates that the user should do something to utilize the function, e.g.
something like "Use Sanitize to remove privacy information on shutdown or on
demand by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del."

Comment 1

[B.J. Herbison]

I don't see the mentioned text in the Privacy section in either 3.6.14 or Minefield. Has the text been moved or is it gone?

Comment 2

[:Cykesiopka]

From what I can tell, the text (or something very similar) was present in Firefox 1.5...
However, it looks like it was removed sometime after, so resolving as WFM.