654192 - "Block images from ..." missing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 647407

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[RalphB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.17
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.17

The context menu entry "Block images from site ..." is missing in Firefox 4.

It seems that this useful entry was removed for FF4 in response to this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514739

As long as Firefox supports image-blocking out-of-the-box -- and it still does --, removing the user interface to conveniently block sites is just broken.

The referenced bug report suggest installing AdBlock to restore the missing functionality.  Please note that AdBlock (1) is plain overkill for simple host-based image blocking and (2) sports a user interface significantly more complex than the built-in image blocking.

Also note that the response to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647407 isn't really adequate.  Just because this feature was removed on purpose (against strong opposition) doesn't mean that it was the right decision.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please don't open a new bug just because you disagree with a decision.