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Please don't remove the old panel. The new panel is inconsistent with my OS UI settings and does not use standard widgets, clashing with everything else on the system.
The repeated messages about the old panel going away are annoying as well.
Please don't remove the old findings menu
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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we are going to keep the option to use the old menu in the upcoming big update of Ghostery for Firefox.
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Hi ferrigno,
Which new panel are you referring to? Which browser and which version of Ghostery do you use?Comment -
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This is on Firefox with Ghostery 2.9.2.
The new panel is the one referred to here:
http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016... -
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Ah, OK. And by "old panel", do you mean the original Firefox Ghostery findings menu, the one in the following screenshot?
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I believe that is the one controlled by the setting:
"Not ready for the new panel? Revert to the old menu temporarily (restart required)"
Basically, all I'm asking is to remove the "temporarily" from that sentence. -
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While the new panel doesn't use native OS widgets, it lets you do everything you could do with the old menu, but with fewer clicks to do the stuff that matters.
For example, to toggle blocking for several trackers in the old menu, you'd have to keep reopening the menu for each tracker, whereas it's just one click per tracker you want to block/unblock in the new panel.
Plus, you can already do more with the new panel: selective unblocking and source URL copy-to-clipboard are not present in the old menu.
The new panel also makes it easier to see at a glance the site's status: which trackers are blocked, whether the site is whitelisted and whether Ghostery's blocking is paused.
We can use the same panel across all different Ghostery browsers, but we can't use the old Firefox Ghostery menu in other browsers.
Since our resources are limited, we are likely to discontinue the old menu in the upcoming Firefox Ghostery 3.0 update. -
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I don't use Ghostery in other browsers, so being consistent with them is not important to me. Being consistent with other applications on my system is, though. All of my other Firefox extensions use standard widgets and obey OS theming.
Again, all I'm asking that you don't discontinue the old menu. -
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Cool, I use Redshift too.
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Yep, thanks for the screenshot.
We'll style the scrollbar in a future release to fit the panel rather than the OS.
I understand that depending on your system colors, the panel could be a bit of an eyesore. However, I just don't think it makes sense to maintain multiple Ghostery UIs given our resources and mission. Whatever solution we come up with will have to work across all Ghostery browsers. Perhaps alternate color schemes are in order. -
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Is it possible to keep the old menu in the future? With 'old menu' I mean the one that is now optional, but not selected automatically. I read that you will be removing it, but I find it a welcome addition, due to it being minimal and (for me) easier to use. I'm sure it's not a big deal to allow users to keep it. Thanks a lot in advance for your reply.
By the way, is it possible to change something in the add-on manually, in the source code, to remove the counter next to the toolbar icon? I'm aware I already asked this, but didn't get a clear response.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Keeping the old menu an option.- view 2 more comments
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Unfortunately, at this point it's likely the original menu will be retired as of Ghostery 3.0 for Firefox.
Please see the rest of this thread and https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/... for more information. -
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Well, if you were willing to change that, all of us would really grateful :)
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I posted several screenshots comparing the different versions of Ghostery's panel UI in https://getsatisfaction.com/ghostery/...
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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we are going to keep the option to use the old menu in the upcoming big update of Ghostery for Firefox.
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