[26543] in Athena Bugs
Re: zap-mozilla-certs doesn't touch firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Aug 28 17:36:33 2005
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:35:55 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 28 Aug 2005
at 17:33:13 -0400 in <p05230101bf37de15c38b@[18.101.2.206]>:
> Perhaps a good compromise might be for the zap-mozilla-certs script
> to check for the existence of ~/.mozilla/firefox/, and say something
> like "Remember, to delete your firefox certificates, you need to run
> zap-firefox-certs."
I think this really kind of fails the usability test. Now users
actually have to read the output! (gasp!). Makes more work for them.
Plus, they don't necessarily know they're running Firefox instead of
Mozilla...
> Personally, I'd pull for a unified "delete all my certs" script (or
> perhaps a script that presents users with all the possible choices,
> like a wrapper script), as it would make life easier for Accounts &
> OLC (at least IMHO), however I could see why people might want
> separate scripts, and in that case, I think the above is a good
> compromise.
I'm not so clear why we need seperate scripts at all. One script
to rule them all :) People in exceptional circumstances can always
do it by hand or something...
--jhawk
