Closed Bug 1362962 Opened 7 years ago Closed 1 year ago

Consider keeping cookies on browser update even with privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown = true

Categories

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Data Sanitization
Version:
55 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1640266

People

(Reporter: jkt, Unassigned)

Details

When I have "Keep Cookies: I Close Nightly" set in about:preferences or network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=2 the browser will delete my cookies on update.

Whilst users who set this as their cookie policy would probably prefer privacy, we also are risking they won't update regularly.
Blocks: ss-feature
Severity: normal → S3

I am wondering if this bug is still valid or if it needs updating? We removed the network.cookie.lifetimePolicy in fx104, see Bug 1681493 - [meta] Deprecate and remove network.cookie.lifetimePolicy

Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)

Hmm, I think this might still be a potential issue with the "Delete cookies and site data when Nightly is closed" pref (privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown / privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies? Sanitizer.sys.mjs doesn't seem to handle updates / restarts in any explicit way but I may be missing something. Hopefully others will have more context here... or someone will need to dig deeper or test this manually.

No longer blocks: ss-feature
Severity: S3 → --
Component: Session Restore → Data Sanitization
Flags: needinfo?(dao+bmo)
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Summary: Consider keeping cookies on browser update even when user has network.cookie.lifetimePolicy=2 → Consider keeping cookies on browser update even with privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown = true

Looks like a dupe of bug 1640266. (This one is older but that one has more detail)

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 year ago
Duplicate of bug: 1640266
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.