Brave-browser: Option to hide Brave Shields activity count
Test plan
See https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3150
Description
Some people think the incrementing block count on Brave Shields is distracting.
The color of the icon is enough for me to know whether it's enabled or not, and if it's enabled I trust that it's working. I'm happy to click the icon if I need more details, but that's rare.
Provide the option to hide the block count while still keeping the shields up.
Designs
Add "Indicate the number of blocked items on the Shields icon" to Shields settings:
It will be toggled ON by default. If the user toggles the indicator OFF, the Shields icon will not have the incrementing blocked item counter, but will still be colored when it's enabled.
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All 16 comments
This feature used to be available with Brave Muon: brave/browser-laptop#8613, brave/browser-laptop#8701
Label: browser-laptop-parity
cndouglas
on 27 Jan 2019
+1.
The count being displayed is horrible for somebody with OCD tendencies (like me). It constantly makes me feel like there are some open notifications I'm supposed to handle 馃槥
b-mueller
on 25 Feb 2019
+1 - please devs, give us an option to hide that counter and a seperate option to hide the lion icon. It's useless for me, and IMHO not aesthetic all in all. Less is more.
ryder203
on 13 Mar 2019
+1
english06
on 13 Mar 2019
+1
hamishr
on 13 Mar 2019
+1 all popular ad blockers have option to hide blocked items counter, that's very surprising brave browser doesn't have that. that counter is super distracting, so actually brave browser isn't usable for me while there is no option to hide it
vladk
on 7 Apr 2019
+1 all popular ad blockers have option to hide blocked items counter, that's very surprising brave browser doesn't have that. that counter is super distracting, so actually brave browser isn't usable for me while there is no option to hide it
Echo this. Completely unusable without this option. Back to Firefox for time being.
colonicregulator
on 8 Apr 2019
Designs added @tomlowenthal
karenkliu
on 11 Apr 2019
Can I ask what P3 backlog means in terms of timelines? This is incredibly distracting to me too and I would love to know if this is going to be updated soon after I just migrated everything from Chrome.
caroltoo
on 25 Jun 2019
@caroltoo hard to estimate a timeline, but this issue is definitely on our radar and we do want to fix it 馃槃 I don't think it would be a terribly difficult change to make (we'd just need to set aside the time to do it)
bsclifton
on 26 Jun 2019
+1 from Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/bjdk7d/how_to_turn_off_the_number_of_ads_blocked_on/
Brave-Matt
on 18 Jul 2019
Time to fork guys.
usaccounts
on 23 Jul 2019
Hi, how do I put this setting into my Brave browser? I am not good with Github, I don't know how to apply these kind of settings.
Thanks.
igekaratas
on 5 Feb 2020
@igekaratas thanks for your patience; we're reviewing now and should be able to merge a fix for this soon 馃槃
bsclifton
on 2 Mar 2020
Verification passed on
Brave | 1.7.67 Chromium: 80.0.3987.149聽(Official Build)聽beta聽(64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 5f4eb224680e5d7dca88504586e9fd951840cac6-refs/branch-heads/3987_137@{#16}
OS | Windows聽10 OS Version 1803 (Build 17134.1006)
- Verified the test plan from https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3150
- Verified
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields iconworks as expected when toggling OFF/ON - Verified that changes are reflected across all the tabs in Normal Tab/Private Tab/Private tab with Tor
- Verified in both clean and upgraded profiles
Verification passed on
Brave | 1.7.71 Chromium: 80.0.3987.149聽(Official Build)聽dev聽(64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 5f4eb224680e5d7dca88504586e9fd951840cac6-refs/branch-heads/3987_137@{#16}
OS | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Verified the test plan from https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3150
- Verified
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields iconworks as expected when toggling OFF/ON - Verified that changes are reflected across all the tabs in Normal Tab/Private Tab/Private tab with Tor
- Verified in both clean and upgraded profiles
Verification PASSED on macOS 10.15.3 x64 Catalina using the following build:
Brave | 1.7.79 Chromium: 80.0.3987.149聽(Official Build)聽dev聽(64-bit)
-- | --
Revision | 5f4eb224680e5d7dca88504586e9fd951840cac6-refs/branch-heads/3987_137@{#16}
OS | macOS Version 10.15.3 (Build 19D76)
- verified the STR/Cases outlined via https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/3150#issue-306423831
- ensured that
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields iconis enabled by default - ensured that disabling
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields iconaffects currently opened tabs + newly created tabs - ensured that disabling/enabling
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields icondoesn't affect current shield settings - ensured that the
Show the number of blocked items on the Shields iconsetting is remembered when restarting the browser - ensured the feature works under PB and Tor windows
- ensured that upgrading from
1.5.115 CR: 80.0.3987.149worked as expected
GeetaSarvadnya
on 24 Mar 2020
Brave is now usable. Switched.
usaccounts
on 29 May 2020
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Most helpful comment
+1 - please devs, give us an option to hide that counter and a seperate option to hide the lion icon. It's useless for me, and IMHO not aesthetic all in all. Less is more.