Unable to white-list anything in the new interface

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Chimel31

Unable to white-list anything in the new interface

Post by Chimel31 »

Hi,

I am at a complete loss how to use the new interface to white-list a web in just 2 clicks.
There are now lines with 8 elements of information for each site and subsite when I click the NoScript icon, none seems to be able to white-list the web site of the same line. Whenever I click on one of these icons, whether it's the blue trusted S icon or the green padlock, it always reverts back to untrusted or/and the red padlock when the page refreshes. A couple weeks later, I still don't know how to white-list a web page without it reverting back to untrusted immediately.

Is there a way to plainly white-list a web site in just one click like before, not to temporarily or custom white-list it?
I'd rather have the temporarily and custom allow icons hidden from the main interface, or to have the possibility for everybody to customize what icons they want to display by default. This new interface is obfuscated and the opposite of intuitive. As far as I can make it, when I want to permanently trust a web site, I have to click on the Temporarily Trusted icon, then turn the red padlock into a green one. Twice as many steps as previously. Besides, a temporarily white list is also a form of custom white list, it's a bit confusing to have them separated.

I get it it's new and in progress, I have seen the different versions and real improvements since Firefox 57, but here it seems to be a regression. The very complex interface allows better customization, at the cost of simplicity and usability. I hope you'll eventually settle on something that's simple to interpret and easier to manage.

For instance, I think you should remove the red number of untrusted sites from the toolbar icon, and leave such numbers (especially in red!) to IM and email web sites. It is quite confusing otherwise. Plus I couldn't care less for the exact number, and I suppose most users either. Most people care only to know the trust status of the web site in the URL and the CDNs it may be using.

The color of the NoScript S icon could be like traffic lights: Green if all sites called from the URL in the address bar are trusted; Yellow if only the web site from the URL is trusted and there is at least one untrusted web site; Red if all sites are untrusted.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to trust the main web site in the URL in just one click on the NoScript toolbar icon, with no extra interface called, just a change of color from red to green or yellow.
If the URL web site is already trusted (NoScript S icon green or yellow), then the click on the S could call the current interface.
Additionally, you could add a drop-down arrow to the right part of this S icon (instead of the useless red number of untrusted sites,) it would allow users to go directly to the current interface where they can custom white-list all they want. As long as one of these icons allows to permanently white-list a web site.

As I probably permanently white-list a dozen or so web sites every day, sites that I might go back to later and don't want to waste time white-listing again, any added complexity makes this task almost impossible to manage. It's already a huge constraint to be forced to white-list almost every site you visit (most use scripting nowadays), I had to disable the new NoScript add-on altogether at times because it was just too complex for some sites, and the icon to temporarily allow all of the page was just not very intuitive to find either.

Actually, it might be great to have a setting to automatically white-list a web site whose URL has been typed or pasted manually in the address bar. This would save a lot of time, and people who type potentially unsafe URLs could just disable this setting.
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