422903 - Don't pop up the blocklist warning if the user isn't idle.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Spencer Selander [greenknight]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031304 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031304 Minefield/3.0b5pre

While I was playing an online game, a warning popped up that one of my extensions was no longer considered safe, prompting for restart to disable the extension.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Very annoyed.

Expected Results:  
 Blocklist warnings should use the idle service like the update notifications do now.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

This is crummy user experience, and we're already doing this for the update dialog.

Comment 2

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

We don't block add-ons nearly as frequently as we release updates, so while I agree that this is annoying and while I agree that we should fix it, not gonna block Firefox 3 on it.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

What should we do instead? We have detected that an add-on you have installed is potentially dangerous and in order to be safe you must restart the application. We don't force a restart from the dialog, you can opt to restart later but surely we should alert you of the issue as soon as possible?

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Could you pop up an alert service warning if the user isn't idle?

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Possibly if we had bug 374538 fixed allowing for sticky alerts.

Comment 6

[Spencer Selander [greenknight]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> What should we do instead? We have detected that an add-on you have installed
> is potentially dangerous and in order to be safe you must restart the
> application. We don't force a restart from the dialog, you can opt to restart
> later but surely we should alert you of the issue as soon as possible?
> 
You can alert users without putting a pop-up in the middle of the screen and interrupting what they're doing. A slider in the notification area always gets my attention; but if you don't think that's prominent enough, how about a notification bar? Make it flash, so it can't be missed.
>
>Possibly if we had bug 374538 fixed allowing for sticky alerts.

Good point.

Comment 7

[Andy McKay]

Due to a long period of inactivity on this bug (6.49 years), I am intending to close this bug within a month or so in accordance with: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/OldBugs Please remove [intent-to-close] from the whiteboard and comment on this bug if you would like to keep it open.