434714 - Can't delete server certificate exceptions if selection includes group container

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78808

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, defect)

Description

[Chris Boyle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051202 Firefox/3.0

In the list of server certificates, if you make a selection that includes a container/twisty-group and press the Delete button, nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure you have stored at least one server certificate (e.g. visit a self-signed site and add the exception).
2. Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Encryption/View Certificates/Servers
3. Make a selection that includes a container (e.g. click the top item and shift-click the bottom item, trying to delete all items).
4. Press "Delete..."
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Either selecting containers should make no difference (just delete any individual items that are in the selection) or selected containers should have all their children deleted. I prefer the former.

Comment 1

[Chris Boyle]

Or perhaps these groups should be unselectable like <optgroup>s, and shift-click should skip over the group headings, just selecting all the individual items. Does it make sense to select a group here?

Comment 2

[SomeGuy]

i find this functionality anoying, there is already sufficent warning messages to avoid accidental deletion, so deleting a group i believe should delete all its children
that is the intuative functionaltiy of a UI and would really make deleting things like CAs less anoying

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 4

[Chris Boyle]

Still occurs in 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

Comment 5

[:Cykesiopka]

Thanks for filing the bug. The issue of nothing happening when a container is selected was fixed in Bug 78808.

In addition, Bug 1136338 is already filed on making it less tedious to delete/distrust a large number of entries post the Bug 78808 fix.