1457935 - No longer possible to selectively delete cookies for a site

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Bug 1348223 removed the cookie viewer/deletion UI from page info.  The commit says:

   Equivalent functionality in a well-maintained interface can be
   found in the storage manager or the devtools storage inspector.

which is not true at all.  In particular, the page info UI let me select a subset of cookies for a site and delete those.  The devtools storage inspector is readonly, and the storage manager has per-site granularity, not per-cookie.  Now that my nightly has updated, I've lost the ability to selectively delete cookies, as far as I can tell.

Comment 2

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

You need to right-click a cookie to delete it in the storage inspector. Although I grant you that we might want to file devtools bugs for delete/return key deletion and multi-select in the storage inspector. I can do that tomorrow, if you like.

If you would like us to restore the cookie manager, this bug is a WONTFIX, sorry. We explicitly intend to reduce the amount of duplicate UI that allows users to remove site data and cookies (and only surface storage management UI to users that conveys that cookies are not the only thing that can store identifying information).

Comment 3

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

(With tomorrow I actually meant on Wednesday, need to stop reading bugmail on vacation now)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er, I put this comment on the wrong bug:

  Looks like the devtools storage inspector _can_ in fact delete cookies.  Via a context menu,
  not keyboard.  And you can't select the cookies you want to delete; you have to delete them
  one at a time.   So it's not really usable for what I was using the page info UI for.

So yeah, what comment 2 says.

I don't care whether you restore the cookie manager or not.  I just want the functionality to be available.  And it would be nice if users trying to use the now-removed UI were somehow pointed to the UI that replaced it, though I can see how that's hard.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

(I should also point out that the context menu thing is completely undiscoverable.  Note my failure to discover it.)

Comment 6

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Ok, I found these two bugs which are probably relevant to removal usability/discoverability issues:

Bug 1349533 - Add a delete storage button in the toolbar
Bug 1406679 - Delete key functionality on shorcuts in the Storage inspector

and I filed this one for multi-select:

Bug 1458652 - Can't select multiple storage items in the storage inspector

Thank you for filing a bug on this, I'll close this one since the original statement isn't really true and thus this isn't actionable as a Page Info bug, but I'll look into getting these improvements done on devtools side.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fwiw, the original statement is pretty true for my purposes.  I've had to downgrade nightlies for now because tasks that I need to do often enough take too long with the devtools UI.  :(