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New enhancement to improve manually approving updated trackers/widgets/cookies etc.

I just encountered a frustrating issue when Ghostery updated itself in Firefox.

I have auto-update turned on, but I have "block by default" disabled so that I can review each new update and enable or disable the new items as I see fit. Upon starting the browser after an update, Ghostery pops up a notification in the corner that it's been updated and gives me the option to review the new changes.

Ordinarily, I'll immediately click to review the updates and apply my changes, but this time I loaded a webpage first, and as soon as Firefox started to load the page, the Ghostery update notification disappeared! Getting into the settings is easy enough so I can go through and configure Ghostery, but I'd lost the ability to see ONLY the newly updated items so that I could configure them without having to go through the hundreds of existing trackers and try to remember which I'd approved myself and which were only unblocked because they were new.

So as a suggestion, would it be possible to either make the "new items" wizard available for the whole browser session, or better yet, to have Ghostery keep all the newly added items separate until the user has gone through and configured them manually to make it easier to go through the list at a later time without having to go through ALL the items available?

It seems like it should only be slightly more complicated to store new items in a separate list until they've been configured, and then merge them into the main list. That's probably the simplest way to do it, but that's up to you developers. It would really be a useful feature, especially since the list of trackers, bugs, widgets etc. is only going to get bigger as time goes on.

Something similar to this:

Trackers
----------------------------
--- new items ---
0 - new unblocked tracker 1
0 - new unblocked tracker 2
--- existing items ---
0 - unblocked tracker 1
X - blocked tracker 1
0 - unblocked tracker 2
X - blocked tracker 2
X - blocked tracker 3
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