UI for auto/manual is not clear.

[luciph0r]

The dropdown menu shows Automatic prune, and clicking it changes it to manual prune. This is a case of using the menu label as a status indicator, and is confusing at first. Would be good if you don't change the label and simply show a checkbox to indicate that automatic or manual pruning is on or off. UI convention is to show a checkbox for a toggle setting in a menu, else the user would think that it is supposed to visibly do something.

[sleepingkirby]

Hi. I'm so sorry. I don't know how I missed this. Which version are you using? I've stopped updating or firefox and palemoon because no one I know uses either. I'll make this update for chrome and push it out to the chrome webstore in a little bit. If you use another version, tell me and I'll updated it there.

[luciph0r]

Thanks for the reply, I've been using the Pale Moon version. Currently it's hit version 29 and dropped support for installing legacy FF extensions that don't explicitly target it, so several new ones forked from Firefox have been added to its addons site. Was recommending your extension as an alternative for other similar older ones, so would be great if you could fix the UI on this and publish the update on the Pale Moon addons site.

[sleepingkirby]

I've changed applied the changes to the popup menu. I'm not sure why, but everytime I've reset the password for the palemoon addon dev panel, after using it once or twice and take a bit of a haitus, I can never log in again. I don't know if there's a password aging thing or what. There's also no good way to automatically recover/reset the password. I'll have to get in touch with Tobin (the creator and admin of palemoon) on IRC to ask to have it reset. I don't have time at the moment to do that. If you want the install now, it's here: https://github.com/sleepingkirby/butWhyMod/blob/xul/releases/butWhyMod_xul.xpi I'll try to contact Tobin to reset my password tomorrow.

[luciph0r]

Thanks for the fix! Yeah, he once said that they expire accounts that don't have any addons created to prevent people from simply creating dummy accounts - but this password expiry is strange.

[sergeevabc]

Dear @luciph0r, have you abandoned the development?

[sleepingkirby]

@sergeevabc No, but I need to figure something out. butWhyMod is need of a major overhaul due to how modals have changed in their implementation. This on top of the Chrome version being vastly ahead of the other two version and manifest v3 being a thing, the documentation for how to program for palemoon being, well, deprecated firefox documentation, I have a lot of work ahead. But at the same time, I have a full time job so this falling to the way side especially since I have 2 other extensions I haven't published but are available in my repo. A good example is that butWhyMod on the Chrome side offers auto skip for any and all videos, can prevent autoplay of videos, and offers refined control of videos (rewind and fast forward in 20 sec, 1 sec, and 1/30 of a sec intervals, or some combination of the three).

[sergeevabc]

There is an alternative called Demodal by @AliasIO. Have been testing it for a month: missed a couple of cookie notices, but at least didn't force me to create exceptions.

[luciph0r]

I've since been content with modal filter lists for uBlock Origin, better than having a separate extension for the same job.

[sleepingkirby]

@sergeevabc @luciph0r I'm glad you guys found alternatives. Especially uBlock. They do good stuff. I do these for fun and my own purposes so I can't be as on the ball as they are. I'm gonna close this issue.