259208 - Cookie preference to ask before setting a cookie is confusing in 0.10 (1.0PR)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Kevin Berkheiser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10

Maybe I just need to get a good nights sleep, but I don't remember being
confused by the wording in the cookie privacy settings until now when I
installed 0.10 (1.0PR) and almost freeked out thinking the cookie management
features had been cut down from .93.

Basically, the wording "keep cookies" really confused me.  I always set Firefox
and Mozilla before it to ask me before setting a cookie.  I normally then tell
it to make my decision persistent.

With 0.10 (1.0PR), I got confused because "keep cookies" did not mean the same
thing to me as setting them in the first place.  I just happend to look through
it and see "ask every time", but then I was wondering why I'd want to be asked
every time if I wanted to keep a cookie?  I wanted to just be asked if I wanted
the cookie set in the first place.  I don't know if the wording changed between
.93 and this new release, but it confused me as to what it was going to do. When
I read it, it didn't sound like it was the same feature I was looking for.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[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