Closed Bug 827290 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Only show Click_to_play Urlbar icon when plugins are hidden

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(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

20 Branch
enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: bgdistance, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20130106 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20130106030902 Steps to reproduce: That icon is a eyesore, it shows up on almost every site. It's big and ugly, and got bigger recently, and the "never ask again" option is actually a moot point, I only use it to make the icon disappear. Think about it, after you click "never ask again" aside from the icon disappearance, there is no benefit at all,only difference is instead of a Click_to_play frame (might be useful sometime) you get a totally black one(only uglier), and it's hard to change it back(for me it's impossible currently,another topic). When you have a Click_to_play frame to click to enable the plugin, there is no point in having a ugly icon showing everywhere. Maybe some people find the icon attractive,so my suggestion is adding a switch at "about:config",allowing users to opt it out.
I tried to hide it using "#notification-popup-box {display: none !important;}", but it will leave a wide blank space before page-proxy-favicon.
By "never ask again" I mean "never enable plugins on this site".
Is there a way like this "#page-proxy-favicon [notification] {margin-left:0px !important;}" to move it back?
For ones who want to hide it: #notification-popup-box { display: none !important; } #identity-box { -moz-padding-start: 2px!important; } It's only a temporary measure, it will hide all notification.
Component: Untriaged → Theme
"Never ask me on this site" should replace "never enable plugins on this site", they both make the icon disappear,with "never ask me on this site" you can still click to play(you never know when you are going to need it) and have a better looking plugin frame.
Component: Theme → Untriaged
If you are 100% sure you will never use the plugin on a site, and never want them enabled, how about "never click on them"?
The ideal way is: for one site, adding "never ask again", for all sites adding "don't ask unless plugins are hidden" (in about:permissions, it's not working currently though).
Component: Untriaged → Theme
Component: Theme → Untriaged
Suspecting that this about Location bar icon...
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Location Bar
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Component: Location Bar → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
Just to be clear, you're talking about the icon in the urlbar, and not the popup notification as a whole, right? If the former, it's unlikely that this change will be made (unless the UI changes completely) due to the difficulty in determining exactly when a plugin is "hidden". Additionally, it is useful to have the "activate all plugins"/"always activate"/"never activate" functionality readily available and discoverable, even for visible plugins. The about:permissions bug is bug 775857 and is being actively worked on. In the meantime, bug 821892 fixes the UI in the page info (permissions) dialog (ctrl+i, Tools -> Page Info, etc.) and is about to land in nightly.
(In reply to Jake from comment #0) > That icon is a eyesore, it shows up on almost every site. It's big and ugly, > and got bigger recently There are users complaining it is not discoverable enough (e.g bug 833506). Anyway, a better solution for this will be handled in bug 838106, bug 820678. (In reply to Jake from comment #6) > If you are 100% sure you will never use the plugin on a site, and never want > them enabled, how about "never click on them"? Agreed. This is handled in bug 754509
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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