GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 736065
Improve the message for Incognito mode
Last modified: 2014-09-05 13:53:46 UTC
The message emphasis on local activity provides a sense of false security; "incognito mode" does not prevent other actors from tracking web browsing activity. We should also consider adding a link to the Tor project.
Created attachment 285396 [details] [review] Improve the message for Incognito mode Going incognito does not remove your downloads. Incognito also does not prevent other actors from tracking your browsing activity.
Review of attachment 285396 [details] [review]: Definitely. You might be able to get a string freeze exception for this if you want, since we're only a couple of days into string freeze. ::: embed/ephy-about-handler.c @@ +543,3 @@ "mode will not show up in your browsing history and all stored " + "information will be cleared when you close the window. Any files you " + "download will be kept.\n" Instead of adding a newline to the string that translators will see, add a second HTML paragraph to the format string above. @@ +544,3 @@ + "information will be cleared when you close the window. Any files you " + "download will be kept.\n" + "It is important to know that browsing in incognito will not hide your " Instead of "browsing in incognito," I think it'd be more natural to say "browsing in incognito mode" or simply "incognito mode."
I'd also appreciate if we tried to get this in for 3.14. Anybody willing to ask on gnome-i18n@ for two string freeze break approvals?
Review of attachment 285396 [details] [review]: I agree with the importance of doing this, but I think the text should be added in a different paragraph and with some form of special emphasis to call for attention. Check Firefox and Chrome on this.
Created attachment 285479 [details] [review] Improve the message for Incognito mode / v2 updated after review * split into a second paragraph * browsing in incognito → incognito mode
Created attachment 285481 [details] [review] Improve the message for Incognito mode / v3 added <strong> around the second paragraph, for emphasis
I can send an email to d-d-l and gnome-i18n about this.
mail sent: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2014-September/msg00043.html
string freeze exception granted: +1: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2014-September/msg00044.html +2: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2014-September/msg00045.html
Please, why there is <em>incognito</em> in the string?
Just for a referense: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/RemoveMarkupInMessages
(In reply to comment #10) > Please, why there is <em>incognito</em> in the string? it has been there for the past year and a half, since the about:incognito page landed for bug 694200: commit 4e23859050fd1410820312c16a21b3716d9f08e9 Author: Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra@igalia.com> Date: Tue Feb 19 20:26:21 2013 +0200 ephy-about-handler: add a about:incognito handler This shows a welcome message for incognito windows. Artwork by Jakub Steiner. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694200 the <em> markup is also deeply embedded into the string, so we cannot just remove it — even the wiki page you link makes a point about a similar case.
Created attachment 285498 [details] [review] Improve the message for Incognito mode Tweaked slightly, thanks!
Attachment 285498 [details] pushed as 26ab123 - Improve the message for Incognito mode