1434067 - Disable cookies impossible to use

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1291841

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[flack]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180118215408

Steps to reproduce:

I have cookies disabled by default in Settings. Until version 56, I had a plugin installed where I could allow cookies for the current domain in two clicks (click addon icon, click "Allow for this session" => cookie exception gets saved and page reloaded). That way, I didn't build up a gigantic lump of cookies in my profile and still could use all the sites I use without too much hassle.


Actual results:

In the current version, the most efficient way I found to achieve the same is

- Cmd-L Cmd-C to copy the current address
- Cmd-, to open Settings
- click on "Privacy"
- find and click the "Exceptions" button in the cookies section
- Cmd-V to paste the address
- move cursor to the end of the field
- Shift-Del until everything after the domain name is removed
- click "Allow"
- click "Save"
- Cmd-W to close Settings
- Cmd-R to reload the page 


Expected results:

Every site where you log in (and everything that uses LocalStorage) needs cookie permissions. So if you allow users to disable cookies by default, there needs to be a straightforward way to add exceptions. Otherwise, the Disable Cookies option is not really useable for day-to-day browsing.

This could be done in a number of ways, for example

- add cookie management options to some context menu when on the page
- add an "Always ask" option to cookie permissions (iirc some browsers has this in the olden days)
- or just expose it via an API and let addon developers come up with something

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to flack from comment #0)
> I had a plugin installed where I could allow cookies for the current domain in two clicks

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookiebro/

> - add an "Always ask" option to cookie permissions (iirc some browsers has this in the olden days)

Bug 606655 intentionally removed the option.

> - or just expose it via an API and let addon developers come up with something

Bug 1291841.

Comment 2

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Should we mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 1291841?

Comment 3

[flack]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #1)
> (In reply to flack from comment #0)
> > I had a plugin installed where I could allow cookies for the current domain in two clicks
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cookiebro/

Thanks for the link! I'Ve tried it shortly and it doesn't seem to work, though: I went to https://html5demos.com/storage/, whitelisted the domain, but I still get "SecurityError: The operation is insecure." in the console (which is the usual error message if localStorage is not allowed)

> 
> > - add an "Always ask" option to cookie permissions (iirc some browsers has this in the olden days)
> 
> Bug 606655 intentionally removed the option.
> 

If I understand the linked bug report correctly, it was not working at this point already. It also doesn't list a rationale for removal. Would have been interesting to know. I don't think I've ever used this feature in Firefox, but I used something comparable in another browser and it seemed relatively usable.

> > - or just expose it via an API and let addon developers come up with something
> 
> Bug 1291841.

Yes, that would be great to have. I don't suppose there's anything an end user like me can do to help this get priority?