483850 - Context menu "Block images from this server" should say *what* server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Dunn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14

Sometimes the annoying blinking bouncing animated GIF you're trying to block comes from another server (e.g. a third-party annoying ad provider), in which case you can pretty safely block all images from that server.  Sometimes it's served up by the same server that's giving you the useful part of the Web page, including useful images, in which case you probably have to put up with it (or use a bigger hammer like Adblock Plus to kill it).

It would be nice to be able to see what server the ad comes from from the context menu that lets you block it, instead of having to fish through page source or page info to try to find the source of the image.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load page with annoying animated GIF ad
2. Right-click ad
3. Pick "Block images from this server" and hope for the best
Actual Results:  
Nothing until you refresh the page (and I know that's a request that someone else has already made), and then ... who knows?  Maybe all the useful images disappear, or maybe just the annoying one(s).

Expected Results:  
I don't know what the most appropriate way to do this is.

It could update the menu to say "Block images from this server (www.annoyingbouncingads.com)" ... but that could make the menu uncomfortably large.  Maybe "Block images from www.annoyingbouncingads.com" would be acceptable.

It could do like at least some versions of Adblock Plus do:  when you click it, you get a dialog that says something like "Block ads from:  _www.annoyingbouncingads.com_" and lets you click OK or edit the text as appropriate.  That could be annoying as it's an extra step, but it certainly adds flexibility.

Others may well come up with vastly superior suggestions.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

The 1.1 branch is in maintenence mode and will only accept security and stability patches. On trunk (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090316 SeaMonkey/2.0b1pre) when I go to: http://www.mozilla.org/ and right click on the conjoined Firefox/Thunderbird image I see "Block images from mozilla.org"