Privacy/Features/Site-based data management UI/Meeting 19-Apr-2011
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Meeting notes
Who:
- Boriss
- Margaret
- Sid
- Mehdi
Two features wanted:
- Full configuration preferences screen (exceptions, blanket
- Ability to change and view permissions for sites while browsing
- Pulling things out of Page Info dialog?
- Ones that have changed are what's important
- Blend in with account manager
- Site identity button, lucky charms
- Deferred to later - trickier (but fun) problem!
Site preferences interface
- iterate on the design from Mehdi's patch from bug 573176
- implement as in-content about page
- [about:permissions]
- representing top-level domains and sub-domains
- determining title
- can use ssl certificate for proper title
- how to deal with domains like google.com/foo vs. google.com/bar
- correct messaging will be important
- start with configuration for "All Sites"
- study user perception of privacy
- users may freak out at in-content page
Action items
- Boriss: look at old designs
- Sid: update wiki page for design work
Additional notes
Generating list of sites:
- start by using places db
- limit query to get sites with high frencency
- we can use favicon service to get icons for these sites
- these sites have titles, but those can be weird for sites with dynamic titles (e.g. gmail unread counts)
- sites that already have preference exceptions (cookies, saved passwords, etc.)
- these preferences are stored separately for complete domains (e.g. google.com and www.google.com are different)
- these sites won't have titles
- have ability to add sites that aren't on the list
- you can currently do this in the cookies exceptions dialog (Privacy -> Use custom settings for history -> Exceptions...)
All sites:
- "All sites" is kind of confusing if those are global preferences, which are overridden by exceptions for specific sites
- perhaps it should be separate from the site list
- above the search box
- different interface in the preferences box
Preferences:
- cookies
- passwords
- geolocation
- storage
- add-on installation
- pop-up blocking
- image loading
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history and bookmarks- Margaret: I don't think we should do this because there is no preference to modify. As much as it may be interesting to see, this pane is not the place for that.