392453 - Pref to control/disable unrequested RSS feed fetching of live bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Cees T.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Firefox 2.0; Kubuntu) Gecko
Build Identifier: Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Kubuntu 7.04

I do a lot of HTTP debugging using Firefox, and it annoys me when totally unrelated RSS requests mess it up. I tried to find a setting to control the unrequested fetching, but failed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a live bookmark folder or two.
2. Watch network traffic.
Actual Results:  
Firefox arrogantly assumes that i wish to look at the live bookmarks often.

Expected Results:  
Only update the live bookmarks when i say so.

The pref could be called "browser.feeds.update" and hold a positive integer:
0 - manually
1 - current behavior (update interval specified in RSS file?)
n - every n seconds

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I think this is a perfectly fine request, and well-founded.

I have an news site RSS bookmarked, but I look at it once every few months. If Firefox is constantly fetching the feed, that's surprising and unwanted. Just because I mark an RSS feed as bookmark doesn't mean I want it to *constantly* update without me ever looking at it.

This has many implications, including tracking (including cookie<->IP tie refresh) and what the reporter said and server load.

The right think to do here is to update the live bookmark when the user navigates into the bookmark (menu) folder.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #1)
> The right think to do here is to update the live bookmark when the user
> navigates into the bookmark (menu) folder.

This is already the case.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Ah, great. Thank you.