Malware UI

[Alex Faaborg]

Johnathan and I are thinking about the UI for malware detection in
Firefox 3. Some mockups have been posted to this bug: https://
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380932

If you are interested in Firefox's user interface for malware
detection please comment over in that bug, or in this thread.

-Alex

[sayrer]

Alex Faaborg wrote:
> Johnathan and I are thinking about the UI for malware detection in
> Firefox 3. Some mockups have been posted to this bug: https://
> bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380932

Hi, I really like it. A couple things worry me, so I would like to
know more about them. Is the small divider between the location bar
and the message box intentional? Why isn't the message box the full
width of the location bar?

[rainierw...@gmail.com]

As somebody who's well aware of phishing sites and the evils of
popups, etc, the more intrusive the notifications about same the more
annoyed I get. I can understand why these notifications really need to
get the user's attention, but please, could you add an option for non-
intrusive-but-still-visible notifications for "advanced" users? Say,
simply changing the background of the location bar to dark red with a
little symbol instead of popping-up that annoying, in-your-face,
message?

The same goes for blocking standard popup windows; the extra, yellow,
bar the appears at the moment really annoys me so changing the
background of the location bar to yellow (a different yellow to SSL-
encrypted sites or a different colour altogether) would be a real
annoyance-eradicating improvement.

By the way, Firefox nees a "Temporarily allow popups from..." feature
so that we don't have to permanently allow popups from a site that, in
all likelihood, we'll only visit once and forget about. Even after
allowing a site, nothing happens. Firefox should reload the page (if
the user hasn't typed anything into any forms) so that they're not
wondering why the popup still hasn't appeared and give up and press F5
instead.

[Freddy Martinez]

[snip]

> I can understand why these notifications really need to
> get the user's attention, but please, could you add an option for non-
> intrusive-but-still-visible notifications for "advanced" users?

I think the real point is allow people to use their browser. sure, let
them be aware of the potential malicious site, but don't break their
browsing experience

[hikar...@gmail.com]

> I think the real point is allow people to use their browser. sure, let
> them be aware of the potential malicious site, but don't break their
> browsing experience

Exactly.

If this protective "feature" ends up being insanely persistant or not
able to be disabled,
I'll happily just use Konqueror instead of FF in my KDE enviornment.

[Gervase Markham]

rainierw...@gmail.com wrote:
> As somebody who's well aware of phishing sites and the evils of
> popups, etc, the more intrusive the notifications about same the more
> annoyed I get.

Do you regularly browse to sites that Firefox considers are phishing sites?

Gerv

[bennm...@gmail.com]

> Say, simply changing the background of the location bar to dark red
> with a little symbol

While alerting a user to the danger of a phishing site, I would agree
that there should be various levels of warnings (basic, advanced,
none: slider and checkbox?). I would like to see the ability to
disable the warnings all together. I'd like to expand on the idea of
temporarily disabling pop-ups to temporarily disabling phishing
warnings for a site as well: it would allow for more robust
development and viewing environment.