1513545 - The Cookies subsection in the control centre may show more than just cookies

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Protections UI, enhancement, P3)

Description

[(no longer active)]

Right now the Cookies subpanel in the Control Centre shows entries for the following reasons:

  * An origin having set or accessed cookies
  * An origin having accessed another storage API (e.g. localStorage or IndexedDB)
  * An origin having accessed a communications API which would allow them to talk to other instances of the same origin in the browser (e.g. SharedWorker or BroadcastChannel)
  * An origin doing something that Gecko does an internal storage access check for (e.g. an origin loading an iframe, similar to bug 1511303, possibly other similar examples may exist elsewhere)

According to Tanvi, the original design goal behind the Cookies subpanel was a UI similar to Chrome's Cookies UI in their equivalent of the Control Centre, which only shows the cookies set by the site and its embedded resources.

I'm filing this to keep track of the differences between what this UI intended to show and what it does today, we'll see what we will do about this inconsistency in the future.