86898 - "Send this address as anonymous ftp password"

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Security: UI, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Dimitrios]

Currently, the above preference option belongs to the "Enable features that help
interprete web pages" entity. It has nothing to do with it and may confuse the
average user (because of the "If you uncheck an item, pages may be loaded faster
but ..." warning). 
Besides that, IMO this option has more to do with Privacy and Security (e.g.
imagine how many uninformed users may provide their email addresses to adult
content ftp sites). It started like a netiquette custom but I think no one does
care for it right now.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to UI design.

The option in question is under Edit > Preferences > Advanced

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I agree completely with Dimitrios. In the current diabolical category 
structure, probably the best place for this pref would be that top level of the 
`Privacy & Security' category. That would also have the nice effect of helping 
fill up the PSM team's bletcherously empty prefs panel.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->security team

Comment 4

[Stephane Saux]

enhancement -> p4

Comment 5

[Stephane Saux]

Moving all P3 and P4 bugs targetted to 2.1 to future.

Comment 6

[John Unruh]

Mass assigning QA to ckritzer.

Comment 7

[Dimitrios]

*** Bug 125454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[John A.]

Putting this in the privacy & security section would help more users find it and
use it to good effect.

With spam comprising more and more of email, bumping this seemingly simple bug
up to a higher priority has become more important.

I'd try my hand at it myself if my programming skills were of the Mozilla ilk.

Comment 9

[John G. Myers]

Mass reassign ssaux bugs to nobody

Comment 10

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Mass change "Future" target milestone to "--" on bugs that now are assigned to
nobody.  Those targets reflected the prioritization of past PSM management.
Many of these should be marked invalid or wontfix, I think.

Comment 11

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This option has been removed from the UI entirely.