Ability to toggle shields (up/down) via keyboard shortcut

[bsclifton]

Description

(Requested via email)
Users should be able to use a keyboard shortcut to toggle the status of shields

[rebron]

cc: @karenkliu help on suggestions for keyboard shortcut for shields toggle.

[karenkliu]

how about:

• on Mac - CMD+SHIFT+S
• on Windows - CONTROL+SHIFT+S
• on Linux - need help here; I have no experience with Linux 😅

[iamzubin]

For Linux I guess CONTROL+SHIFT+S should be fine.

[0xedward]

Hey, I would like to give this a go!

@bsclifton - I would like your thoughts on if I'm looking at the right files here (0xedward/brave-core@b30878f)

[bsclifton]

@0xedward sorry for not following up on this - there are a large number of notifications and sometimes things get lost ☹️

For this, we'd want something in in the hamburger menu. The Show Bookmarks Manager would be a good example to look at for implementation; Ctrl + Shift + B. There may be a complexity in catching the event in C++ and then sending a message (picked up in JavaScript) to disable shields

[0xedward]

No problem, @bsclifton!

Thanks for the pointer! I'll continue working on it when I get the chance 🙂

[ExplorerAadi]

Hi,
If no one is working on this issue, can I pick it ?

[0xedward]

I haven't gotten around to this yet, so feel free to take it over @aadi-27

[ExplorerAadi]

Can someone help me with this ? I ran "npm run init" and it took around 3-4 hrs, used up 30+ gb of my data and still gave this error at the end. Now everytime I am running "npm run init", it throws this error.

[bsclifton]

@aadi-27 did you follow dev setup README here?
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Windows-Development-Environment

[dwarburt]

I had the same problem on Linux today and I had to edit file brave-browser/src/brave/build/rustup/0.1.4/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/semver-parser-0.10.1/src/generated.rs to remove the line #![rustfmt::skip] (on line 4, just delete the whole line) and then it built correctly. steveklabnik/semver-parser#52

[xanoni]

Hey friends (@aadi-27, @dwarbut, @rebron, @karenkliu, @srirambv, @bsclifton, and everyone whom I forgot). I strongly support this feature. However, I would suggest that Brave also adds ways to change the granular shield settings via shortcuts.

Currently, people who use the most aggressive settings as their default (no cookies, full anti-fingerprint, aggressive tracker blocking, etc.) and then relax things on a site-by-site basis have a horrible user experience. This strongly (but unnecessarily) discourages use of restrictive defaults, which can't be in the interest of the Brave project.

E.g., we need a shortcut that switches cookies from "all blocked" to "only cross-site blocked".

If this would mean too many shortcuts, there should be some other UI mechanism to make it easier to change the defaults. E.g., after pressing a certain shortcut, a popup appears in the middle of the browser window where people can quickly adjust shield settings.

[asubedy]

Hey @bsclifton, I see no PRs for this issue, Can you assign it to me? I was thinking maybe first let us implement the toggle shields shortcut first, then later work what @xanoni suggested. I would love your advice here.
Also, I was reading the Linux development environment, and there on system requirements it said a minimum of 100GB free space required. Is this a must-have requirement?

Thank you

[bsclifton]

@asubedy sure thing! You're assigned

For a complete compile, the 100GB is recommended. The Chromium source (and accompanying git history) are fairly large, and then when compile the object files, etc take up a decent chunk of space too

[xanoni]

For a complete compile, the 100GB is recommended. The Chromium source (and accompanying git history) are fairly large, and then when compile the object files, etc take up a decent chunk of space too

Curious, on something similar to a MacBook Pro, how long does the first build take and how long do subsequent builds take (with let's say just a few line changes)?

I found wildly varying estimates on the WWW, from <1 hour (really?) to more than a day (sucks). Thank you.

[fallaciousreasoning]

I'm closing this because as of brave/brave-core#18526 if you enable brave://flags/#brave-commands you can add your own shortcut for this at brave://settings/system/shortcuts (search for shields).

Right now, I don't think we're going to add a default shortcut for this.

cc @rebron