Closed Bug 844605 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Expose third-party cookie behavior pref in metrofx

Categories

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect)

x86_64
Windows 8.1
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jimm, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [metro-mvp?])

The pref is 'network.cookie.cookieBehavior', and it looks like we don't have a default which means we accept all cookies, including from 3rd party advertisers (see bug 818340).

We should define this, and also we should consider adding a pref flyout option for it.
Perhaps I'm missing something? Why would the default behavior on Metrofox be different from normal?
(In reply to Tom Lowenthal [:StrangeCharm] from comment #1)
> Perhaps I'm missing something? Why would the default behavior on Metrofox be
> different from normal?

The default looks ok actually, I just checked and it's set to 3 in all.js. So this bug is more about offering the user a pref to change the default.
The default in libpref/src/init/all.js is network.cookie.cookieBehavior=3 ("limitForeign").  Metro Firefox uses this default, so we currently have the same default as desktop Firefox, which I think is what we want.

I think the only change we need to make (if any) is to add a visible pref for third-party cookie behavior in the Options flyout panel.
Summary: Define cookie behavior for metrofx → Expose third-party cookie behavior pref in metrofx
We are not adding cookie management to Metro Firefox any time soon.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
No longer blocks: metrov1triage
OS: Windows 8 Metro → Windows 8.1
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