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I was wondering since we have the "Recently Allowed" menu list which I find unnecessary and actually bothers me, can we have a feature that can have very useful implications.

Currently the "Revoke Temporary Permissions" does a global one, cannot easily find out what items are on that list and it got me thinking there is a very useful feature missing where you can have that item expand into a menu that shows individual items that are currently temp allowed and then on the very top have an "All" which lets you just remove them all, but alternatively, if you clicked on the individual items listed, it will revoke ONLY that one and not all the rest.

Something to this effect:

Wow, no thoughts on this?

Wouldn't that be superflusou? Temp allowed sites still showed their own "Forbid blah.com" entry in the menu. When you use that, it revokes the temp allow but does not make it a permanent Forbid. Right?

-Foam

No actually its not superfluous and I think its due to you missing my point, I'll clarify. The individual forbids only appear on the sites where they were temp allowed and unless you are there, it won't show up. If you ever wander away to other places, there is no way to know what is on your temp allow list without opening the "whitelist" option and see which ones are in italics, depending on the size of your list that is time wasting and pretty lame way to do it. This way in the same session you can revoke the ones you don't need anymore without losing the ones you DO need. Currently model is a all or nothing revoke. Now superfluous is having a recently allowed which serves practically no purpose.

Ah, right you are! I think this would have more of a niche usage, but the idea is solid. I'm for it.

One question tho: As we both know from topics posted here, there are users that maintain dozens of tabs and keep their browser open for days. All other menu entries are constrained by the number of items referenced on the current page (e.g. Untrusted submenu) or by NoScript's code (e.g. the Recently Blocked Sites shows 10 at most). How would this new Revoke Temp Allow sub-menu look when it had 30, 50, or more sites in it?

-Foam

From the point of view of a programmer myself, there are tons of modalities that can be used to accommodate large number of links which is possible but that would be something that like the recently allowed menu can have a cap value, either in the GUI or through about:config as to how many items show. However, to get full functionality, there are tons of ways to show ALL without too much noticeable performance lag. The most common being a check/or regular list box showing a single entry for each site that can be selected in batch and revoked using checkboxes or just click once to highlight them or another to undo and then when done you click revoke and viola, they are done and the rest remain.

As for the usage being a niche, its possible it is, since I don't leave my browser open for days like most, I restart at least every other 30 minutes. However, sometimes you are in a conference and the browser must remain open but you are doing other stuff and you don't want to revoke all since it will affect what you are doing but don't want to leave them allowed either and so far the only solution has been to open whitelist and find the italic items and remove them manually which is just asinine from a usability angle.

I was going to make exactly this suggestion, as well as similar functionality on 'make page permissions permanent'.

Some pages have a number of scripts from different sources, some of which are needed for key functionality, others are less desirable or trustworthy. It is not always obvious which is which and some trial and error is needed. A more fine grained control of the temporary permissions would make this much easier.