545726 - Provide option to turn off having to click on "Show Remote Content" button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jon Roland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.1

It is a hassle to continually have to click on the "Show Remote Content" button to see graphics and other features. I don't need that security feature, and I don't find a way to turn it off. May Windows users need it, but us Linux users don't. Please provide a setup option to disable it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

This is not so much a security feature as a privacy one: spammers, legitimate marketers, etc can send messages with so-called "pixel tags" (tiny images retrieved with a unique URL) that determine whether you opened the message or not. Unless Linux has a superpower that I am presently unaware of, this applies equally to all operating systems.

However, if you do want to disable this, setting mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image to false will do what you want (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor…, then filter on `remote` and toggle the given pref).
Resolving WFM accordingly.