672540 - Allow wildcard in image blocking functionality

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Andreas Eibach]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110715 Firefox/8.0a1
Build ID: 20110715030758

Steps to reproduce:

The image blocking functionality is very nice, especially if you are not allowed to install add-ons as in public environments, so the only "ad-block" you have is the image blocker; however, this can sometimes make your browsing experience a lot better because some annoying images from the same annoying sites are filtered.


Actual results:

Tried to use a wildcard (e. g. *.googlesyndication.com) to remove a whole bunch of sub-servers (in this case the ever-present Google Ads) but this did not work; I had to specify the exact server name. And that means if I want to filter out said "whole bunch of servers," the only way out will be to specify each server explicitly.
(Which may be a list of 20 servers.) 


Expected results:

Wildcards ought to be accepted.
Thanks for considering.

Comment 1

[Gunnar Aas]

This should be changed to enhancements.

Comment 2

[Andreas Eibach]

LOL, in all honesty, for me it was on knife's edge between "enhancement" and "minor" that's why I had a ridiculously hard time to decide which I should choose.