Closed Bug 238407 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

[website] Describe some popular users.js prefs on the website

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
Camino1.0

People

(Reporter: stuart.morgan+bugzilla, Assigned: camino)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Currently, the Camino prefs page at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/docs/profileprefs.html doesn't give any user.js prefs. Putting a list of some of the supported prefs (with descriptions) that are potentially useful enough to make people aware of them, but not general enough to put in the UI, would be a good compromise solution between flexibility and pref bloat. I'm thinking specifically of user_pref("network.cookie.lifetime.enabled", true) from bug 174070, but I would imagine there are other prefs of a similar nature that could be added as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true) from bug 172718 is another candidate; it's very tricky to make a clear pref for it (without a lot of javascript handling as well, since the end user doesn't care what makes something open in a new window) but a useful feature nonetheless.
A few suggestions on cookies: 1. I'm not sure who would be willing to accept one cookie from a site but not another; rather than ask for all cookies, ask for all sites. The response to the first cookie will be taken as the response to all from that site. 2. In the "ask" dialog for cookies, have three buttons to respond: Deny, Accept for now, Accept long- term (or words to that effect). "Accept for now" would discard the cookie upon quit (or after one hour, or whatever) and ideally, this preference would be saved for the site. 3. There should be a "Deny from off-site" cookies option.
1 & 2 are bug 173521 (which could potentially be re-opened for consideration) 3 is likely to be addressed in bug 182540
Stuart why don't you write the page and attach it here so we can publish it on mozilla.org ?
I'll get the page written soon. In the mean time, notes about other candidates for the page: bug 178944 (browser.cache.disk.capacity, should probably be GUI eventually but listed until then) maybe bug 149434 (browser.display.screen_resolution) if it does indeed work Also, network.cookie.lifetime.enabled is obsolete, so the new pref should be listed instead.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
this should probably be linked off the "tips and tricks" page available from the help menu.
Target Milestone: --- → Camino1.0
QA Contact: stolenclover
Other possibilities: wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride, if we add support for it the favicon disabling pref
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Assignee: pinkerton → stuart.morgan
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Giving my bugs back to pink.
Assignee: stuart.morgan → pinkerton
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
reassigning to me, I already have a great deal of this done.
Assignee: pinkerton → camino
Jasper, this is fixed now with the new website, right?
Yep, closing bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Moving [Website] bugs to new "Product Site" component.
Component: Help → Product Site
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