252938 - make it clearer that whitelisted cookies aren't downgraded to session

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Users aren't discovering one of Firefox's most awesome privacy features, the
ability to downgrade cookies to session except for sites on your whitelist.  One
user even requested that we add the feature (by filing bug 252902) despite the
fact that we already have it.

Ideas:

* Add text to Options > Privacy > Cookies or to the Exceptions dialog explaining
that if you select "Keep cookies until I close Firefox", you can allow specific
sites to store long-term cookies using the Exceptions dialog.

* Go back to using radio buttons instead of a dropdown.  Replace "Until I exit
Firefox" with "When I exit Firefox, only keep cookies from sites I have
whitelisted."  Once bug 217199 is fixed, we can remove the "Ask me every time"
option and replace the radio group with a single checkbox.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the updated patch for bug 230462 should help with this.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

When a site not in my Exceptions list sets a cookie:
(o) Accept the cookie
( ) Accept the cookie, but delete it when I close Firefox
( ) Reject the cookie
( ) Ask me

or

For sites not on my Exceptions list:
(o) Store cookies.
( ) Store cookies until I exit Firefox.
( ) Reject cookies.
( ) Ask me when the site sets the cookie.

or, if it's ok to eliminate the last two options and replace the Exceptions
dialog with a simpler Allowed Sites dialog,

[ ] When I exit Firefox, only keep cookies from Allowed sites.

Comment 3

[Noam Tamim]

Any plan to implement this? It's been almost two years ago!

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change