754509 - remove "Never activate plugins for this site" option from click to play

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The "never activate plugins for this site" option will be really hard to undo and an accidental click on that could cost us a user if she cannot figure out the hidden undo. I don't see a great use case for this option and think that we should remove it at least until we have a better understanding of why a user would want it and how we'd make it easier to undo that it is today.

Comment 1

[Lucas Adamski [:ladamski]]

That's definitely a concern.  The use case behind having a "never allow" option is largely for hidden plugins that would constantly trigger a gold bar.  I agree that solving this requires figuring out the larger problem of how to provide latent notification when some permission has been permanently permitted or denied (this is a problem we need to solve for WebAPI/Apps in general).

Instead of removing it, can we make it contingent on solving the notification problem?

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Lucas Adamski from comment #1)
> That's definitely a concern.  The use case behind having a "never allow"
> option is largely for hidden plugins that would constantly trigger a gold
> bar.

For click-to-play notifications we aren't using a gold bar. Instead we are using a much less annoying icon in the location bar.

Comment 3

[alex_mayorga]

Maybe the "Lego block" block icon should always remain in the URL bar for a domain for which the user has selected "never activate plugins for this site". This way the user would always have the affordance to change the option is she so chooses.

Comment 4

[Tanvi Vyas[:tanvi]]

(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #3)
> Maybe the "Lego block" block icon should always remain in the URL bar for a
> domain for which the user has selected "never activate plugins for this
> site". This way the user would always have the affordance to change the
> option is she so chooses.

We are considering a similar model for the Mixed Content Blocker "sheild" block icon.

Comment 5

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

How do you remove an accidental 'Never for this site' ?  
I was testing / playing with this feature and clicked the 'Never for..' and now cannot find a way to 'undo' the block.

about:permissions does seem to have any info about the block.

Comment 6

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

(In reply to Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11 from comment #5)
> How do you remove an accidental 'Never for this site' ?  
> I was testing / playing with this feature and clicked the 'Never for..' and
> now cannot find a way to 'undo' the block.
> 
> about:permissions does seem to have any info about the block.

Grr, that should read: about:permissions does NOT seem to have any info about the block.

Comment 7

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

This should also be resolved by the new CtP UI spec.
The doorhanger will stay accessible via the notification icon and allow for modifying the permissions.

Comment 8

[Kim]

I accidentally clicked on "never activate plug-ins for this site" and now I can't figure out how to undo it.  I need to be able to log into this site can't do it without the plugin.

Comment 9

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Kim from comment #8)
> I accidentally clicked on "never activate plug-ins for this site" and now I
> can't figure out how to undo it.  I need to be able to log into this site
> can't do it without the plugin.

Right-click on the page and go to Page Info. Then in Page Info you can go to the Permissions tab and change the plugin permissions for the page there.