599310 - Add "restore default settings" menu item

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 872241

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Jacobson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100628 Iceweasel/3.6.4 (like Firefox/3.6.4)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100628 Iceweasel/3.6.4 (like Firefox/3.6.4)

Often we use Firefox at various public libraries' terminals.
We sit down only to find that the previous user has screwed things up.
It would be great if there were a general "restore default settings" button available in the menus.

Note however often libraries set the Homepage and we don;t want to mess with that, so perhaps make restoring that harder.

Reproducible: Always




This bug is not for some part of Firefox, unlike other bug reports here, but for the entire thing.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

This is IMO a feature which should be implemented as extension. There will be a very limited subset of users who would be interested in.

Alex, closing as wontfix?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

faaborg ping

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does Troubleshooting, refresh do this for you?

Comment 4

[Dan Jacobson]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #3)
> Does Troubleshooting, refresh do this for you?
Yes.
However, in the default virgin Firefox setup,
the Menu bar is hidden.

The user will instead only find "Preferences". And will thus never find Help --> Troubleshooting, refresh!

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping to bug 872241 which is newer, but has more info