Meeting notes

Who:

• Boriss
• Margaret
• Sid
• Mehdi

Two features wanted:

1. Full configuration preferences screen (exceptions, blanket
2. 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
• 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.

Relevant links:

• https://bug573176.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=452384