39447 - FEATURE - Should be an simple option to turn off 'What's Related'

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Stefan Vassall]

Build no.:   All I've seen!

There should be a simple option to turn off What's Related searchs. This
functionality can be achieved by placing a * in the 'Do not request box' but not
all users would figure that out.

Additionally if What's Related is turned off it should remove the associated
panel from My Siderbar.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

This used to be in prefs but it was removed (per another bug), since there's no 
reason to have such a preference.  If you don't want What's Related info, just 
hide the What's Related tab...

wontfix

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sorry for the spam.  New QA Contact for Browser General.  Thanks for your help
Joseph (good luck with the new job) and welcome aboard Doron Rosenberg

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 44456 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[tor]

Reopening bug.  This is a privacy matter as well as convenience.  If you take
the action suggested by Blake (making another sidebar tab current), mozilla
still sends the URLs visited to www-rl.netscape.com.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

tor, my suggestion wasn't just to change the active sidebar panel, but rather 
to completely remove it from the sidebar.  Is that still the same situation?

Comment 7

[tor]

If you remove the what's related sidebar panel by selecting the menu
option "add->what's related" (non-intuitive naming), then mozilla does
not contact www-rl.

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

so can we close this up as wontfix again?

(btw: you're right, that's very non-intuitive - I think I'll file a bug on it)

Comment 9

[tor]

Closing this bug again.  CC me on the naming bug, could you?  Thanks.

Comment 10

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified again.