1016077 - remove "ask me every time" cookie UI pref

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 606655

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

It's rather busted and causes all sorts of problems. We'd like to remove the entire feature in bug 546746, but first we should remove its exposure in the preferences dialog.

That means removing the "Keep until: Ask me everytime" menu option if the pref is not set to that value.

Comment 1

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

pardon me, is there a better way to avoid third-party sites to spy on us?

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

(In reply to Matus UHLAR - fantomas from comment #1)
> pardon me, is there a better way to avoid third-party sites to spy on us?

e.g.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/privacy-badger-firefox/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disconnect/

Comment 3

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Attachment: 0001-Bug-1016077-remove-ask-me-every-time-cookie-UI-pref.patch

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=2f9f0516c8a7

Comment 4

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

your patch implements this:

> That means removing the "Keep until: Ask me everytime" menu option

but not this:

> if the pref is not set to that value.

We could also just migrate users away from that pref value.

Comment 5

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Hi Tim, can you assign a point value and if the bug should be marked as [qa+] or [qa-].

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 8474227 [details] [diff] [review]
0001-Bug-1016077-remove-ask-me-every-time-cookie-UI-pref.patch

We need either pref resetting or "intelligent disabling" (only hide the option when it is not selected).

The former is better longer term, but we need to understand how much we'd benefit from removing the core support for this configuration, and what the alternatives are for people who really want this behavior.