Closed Bug 923944 Opened 11 years ago Closed 10 years ago

"allows pages to choose the fonts setting" is an hazardous option

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Version:
24 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 581647

People

(Reporter: fabrice.salvaire, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130917102642

Steps to reproduce:

A long time ago I disabled "allows pages to choose the fonts setting" option naively. Unfortunately it took to me a long time to understand it was the reason with some glyphs on github was funny.  



Expected results:

Warn users they should not disable this option until they are really aware of the side effects.
Read "Checkboxes that kill your product" (http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill).

Mozilla can't educate each user.
Component: Untriaged → Preferences
(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Read "Checkboxes that kill your product"
> (http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill).
> 
> Mozilla can't educate each user.

Interesting article. All these special settings should be only available within an expert mode. It is what I did for my own software.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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