IMHO, new Firefox findings panel has a bizarre unintuitive Interface

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Future versions of the panel will have tooltips over all controls, which should help with the two blocking toggles: the global block slider and the site-specific unblock button.

Clicking either blocking toggle provides immediate feedback via text bubble as to what just happened.

Think of the two blocking toggles as checkboxes. Each is either on or off.

Pause Blocking and Whitelist Site buttons are already clearly labeled as such.

Hi Alexei, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I've gone over the 8-dot findings panel help a number of times, and I do see the short contextual help msgs and whatnot, but none of that is helping. I'm getting up in years and am definitely suffering burn out from all the many hundreds non-intuitive apps, nonstandard GUI's and oddly crafted input forms I encounter on a daily basis. There aren't enough hours in the day to become familiar with everything at my fingertips much less memorize the idiosyncrasies of each. That's why, for a utility like this, visual intuitiveness with no clutter and distractions is a must. Running side-by-side with NoScript and even allowing for having to scan upwards of 20 items per window or tab visited to see what's allowed/forbidden/temp forbidden, I spend less time glancing at the NoScript popup.
IMHO, a user shouldn't have to spend more than a couple seconds glancing at such popups, much less pause to "think about" an analogy of what the various parts mean or read tool-tips repeatedly, decide which direction is right/wrong for a situation, what the blue, red, green colored lights and crossed off text means, and having to reload to see what we've done and rethink if it's correct. IMHO, it's just not visually intuitive and efficient the way a simple column of uniform radio buttons would be. As it is, my eyes are now drawn all over the popup, trying to read tiny print, decide which way the slide bar and what all the colored buttons mean/how settings will be affected.
Ex1 - I whitelisted getsatisfaction, so it's no longer even in the list (I think it used to be) but is tucked up at the top (totally opposite from the whitelist button at the bottom) and in tiny green print. BUT, I accidentally tapped the whitelist button, clicked reload AND clicked reopen popup (because hitting reload doesn't automatically bring the pop up back) and now getsatisfaction is no longer green. I have no idea why since I didn't highlight it. Perhaps tapping that button disable/enables ALL whitelisted items.
Ex2 - I usually want everything from that intrusive data miner Google blocked everywhere (aside for specific instances on a specific browser tab where I'd quickly want to enable then disable.) So on getsatisfaction I'm looking at 2 trackers, Google Analytics (blocked) and Relic (still unsure about that one but then we're juggling names and acronyms for 100 cookie setters and some are changing their names to further confuse us). First, Google Analytics was lined out with a red button adjacent to a green button(??) and Relic was unlined with a blue button and no green button. I have no idea what I clicked, but now Google is unlined but still with both a red and green button and the status bar says I'm not blocking anything! Yikes. More time wasted correcting that errant click only to realize getsatisfaction forces the temp enabling of google.com. Arrrrggghhhh This is crazy frustrating. IMHO, a simple columnar design of tracker names with a row of on/off red/green buttons would be far easier to quickly scan.
Anyway, please don't expend valuable time one-on-one teaching me how I screwed this up because I will forget whatever you tell me by the next time I need to access the popup. I know you guys went to a lot of effort to reconfig this app, and you HAVE made it quite a flexible and powerful utility, so I guess it's just me. Old software users don't just fade away, our brains fry and then we get obsoleted.