RequestPolicy/requestpolicy — Issue #217: Enable toolbar button by default in Firefox 4
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 06:02:20+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

Firefox 4 uses a new Add-on bar that is disabled by default. Thus, the "status bar" RP icon is not visible in a default Firefox 4 installation. As a result, installing RP (or upgrading to Fx 4) can be confusing because requests are blocked but there's no obvious way to interact with RP (there is an RP entry in the context menu for a web page, but that's not very obvious).

To solve this, we should detect if the user is on Firefox 4 and install the toolbar button to the toolbar. We need to keep track that we've done this once so that if the user removes it, we don't add it back. That can probably be done with a pref.