Open Bug 1231319 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Add option to keep cookies for fixed amount of days

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

42 Branch
enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: t_mdl, Unassigned)

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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Build ID: 20151110145223 Steps to reproduce: In preferences when you select Privacy -> accept cookies -> Keep until Actual results: Being presented with selection : - Until they expire (in this case you are agreeing to unlimited tracking, no limits set) - Until I close firefox (this sets a way too short lifespan for session cookies) - ask me any time (this option makes a lot of visual spam and it is really not a good choice, since most sites now want to set cookies). Expected results: To have one more choice - - Expire all cookies in <x> days. So cookies lifetime will be limited for a reasonable limit. If I set, for example, this option for 7 days: - my session cookies will mostly expire in less than this limit. - Long time tracking and forgotten visited sites that left long lived garbage cookies will be removed after a week.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Preferences
See Also: → 1457170
Severity: normal → S3
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