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[Roadmap] Preview for subscription being added

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:06 am
by Wladimir Palant
A suggestion from the Mozilla Russia forum: add a "Preview" link or similar to "Add filter subscription" dialog so that the user can see the filters before adding.

Note: this is low priority because subscriptions can change filters at any time. Still, a preview would be nice to have.

Re: [Roadmap] Preview for subscription being added

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 9:00 am
by Wladimir Palant
Scheduled for Adblock Plus 1.4, tentatively - might do this as well while subscription management is being redesigned.

Re: [Roadmap] Preview for subscription being added

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:02 am
by Hubird
Personally I don't see much point in this. The only time I see this being useful is if the user want to check a subscription is of a reasonable quality before subscribing to it but (bare minimum of slow filters & no obvious crazy hides or blocks). Any recommended subscriptions should already tick these boxes and if a user want to subscribe to something other than a recommended subscription then they can copy and paste the subscription URL into their browser manually to check it if they feel the need.

Re: [Roadmap] Preview for subscription being added

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:20 am
by Wladimir Palant
This is mainly meant for minimal subscriptions of this kind: http://lifehacker.com/5542041/block-sit ... block-plus
These could also use data: URLs instead of a physical server.