Open Bug 685496 (redirect-warn) Opened 13 years ago Updated 1 month ago

[meta] Tracking bug for enhancements and bugs with "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar

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(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

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(Reporter: aceman, Unassigned)

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(Depends on 16 open bugs)

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(Keywords: meta, ux-control, ux-interruption, Whiteboard: [tracking])

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It seems the "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar are confusing to users as it has several problems. I try to link them here.
Depends on: 510186
Depends on: 443254, 423749
Depends on: 685550
Depends on: 687300
Depends on: 220118
Blocks: 680565
No longer blocks: 680565
Depends on: 680565
I'm removing uiwanted since this is a metabug tracking UI rather than the bugs that would have UI itself
Keywords: uiwanted
Depends on: 722329
Alias: redirect-warn
Keywords: meta
Summary: [meta] Tracking bug for enhancements and bugs with "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar → Tracking bug for enhancements and bugs with "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar
Depends on: 746997
Depends on: 459373
Depends on: 837088
Depends on: 1172999
I suggest adding bug 1206443.
Depends on: 1206443
Depends on: bug 1296485
Depends on: 1296485
No longer depends on: 1296485
Depends on: 1386910

¡Hola Gijs!

What should happen to this bug?

It would appear that on recent versions of Firefox the "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" setting don't even exist anymore, sadly.

IHMO, this should come back and appear under "Permissions" in about:preferences#privacy

This is still annoys users to this day as I ended up here while trying to help a Firefox user with https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1279361

¡Gracias!
Alex

Flags: needinfo?(gijskruitbosch+bugs)
Summary: Tracking bug for enhancements and bugs with "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar → [meta] Tracking bug for enhancements and bugs with "Warn Me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" feature and the corresponding "Firefox prevented this page from automatically redirecting to another page" information bar

(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #4)

¡Hola Gijs!

What should happen to this bug?

It would appear that on recent versions of Firefox the "Warn me when web sites try to redirect or reload the page" setting don't even exist anymore, sadly.

It was removed from the visible prefs because it can break sites and rarely does what people actually want. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365133#c260 .

IHMO, this should come back and appear under "Permissions" in about:preferences#privacy

This is still annoys users to this day as I ended up here while trying to help a Firefox user with https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1279361

Well, this user, as far as I can tell from the Spanish fed through a machine translator, was not helped by the option because the site in question uses javascript reloads and not meta redirects. That's bug 220118 / bug 687300.

Really, the issue here is that we should have something that blocks redirects/reloads that happen without user interaction. But if we implemented that, pretty much none of that could use the code currently used for this pref, so I don't see the checkbox coming back.

Flags: needinfo?(gijskruitbosch+bugs)
Severity: normal → S3
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