362154 - please add anti-RSI break reminder feature

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Spiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

It would be great if Firefox had a typing wrist break reminder
feature, like xwrits, workrave, or Break Reminder for Windows, built in. Such a feature would interrupt your browsing session once every hour and
stop you from typing for 5 minutes.

This feature could either be disabled by default, or be set to some insanely high value like a 2-second lock every 8 hours of continuous use. Such a high value would affect very few people.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

I strongly suspect this will be a WONTFIX, it's easily done through an extension, isn't desired behavior by most users, and would actually create more bug reports by users not expecting such a feature.

Also, worth pointing out here, anyone that's undisciplined enough to need enforced breaks will keep on working in other applications, so the place to enforce typing breaks and other anti-RSI practices is in the OS, not in the browser.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Certainly WONTFIX. I sort of remember seeing an extension that would do just this, but something like WorkRave (which works system wide) is probably a better solution anyways.