Re:Checkboxes that kill your product
by josephlord on Monday March 18, 2013 @02:21PM
(#5396118)
> "Disable Images" can be handy in certain, very specific settings, but it doesn't really deserve a slot in the main preferences dialog.
When I have a highly limited connection is just the time I wouldn't want to download a plugin OR be searching for instructions about how to disable images. It is also fairly good plain language that even non-experts could understand. I think it probably does deserve a place somewhere in the settings.
Disable Images are handy when your internet is slow (lagging public wifi, heavy packet loss) and you need to get job done.
Except maybe for the cache control, the settings the author talks about are basically useless. Third-party plugins like NoScript are a much better solution. Be honest, do you use the "Disable JS" checkbox, or do you use NoScript?
"Disable Images" can be handy in certain, very specific settings, but it doesn't really deserve a slot in the main preferences dialog.
I don't think the author is advocating the complete removal of these options. I think he's objecting to how prominent they are in Firefox's UI. about:config is the perfect repository for all of these tweaks, and I expect the dialog is already just a frontend to about:config.
His point is they can make better use of that prominence than they currently are.