data manager enhancement requests
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(Firefox :: Site Identity, enhancement)
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(Reporter: phr-mozilla, Unassigned)
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What I did: Tried to block cookies from all aliexpress.com domains; wanted to whitelist ONLY a few special sites to persist cookies after closing browser; want to automatically delete cookies when not visiting a site.
What happened: Data manager doesn't support any of these. Visit aliexpress.com then look at the cookie store: there are cookies from more than ten different aliexpress.com subdomains unless you block them all separately. Other stuff mostly self explanatory.
What should have happened:
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Blocking a wildcard (*.aliexpress.com) should be supported
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With "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" checked, I'd still like to keep the cookies from a few specific sites like my (paid and privacy conscious) email provider or my own sites. Data manager should have a permission to whitelist this.
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If I leave the browser open for days at a time (normal user behaviour) then "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" doesn't help in disassociating visits from each other by clearing cookies. There should be an option to delete cookies and site data from any domain as soon as there are no tabs open on that domain, or perhaps 5 minutes after the last such tab closes.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Thank you for the suggestions!
Blocking a wildcard (*.aliexpress.com) should be supported
This is a popular suggestion (and I can understand why), but our permission manager isn't really built in a way that would easily support implementing this. It would certainly be a major effort and nobody has found the time to do it. There's a bug for this, but I can't find it right now.
With "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" checked, I'd still like to keep the cookies from a few specific sites like my (paid and privacy conscious) email provider or my own sites. Data manager should have a permission to whitelist this.
This is possible, just select "Manage Permissions" and add your sites to the Allow list.
If I leave the browser open for days at a time (normal user behaviour) then "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" doesn't help in disassociating visits from each other by clearing cookies. There should be an option to delete cookies and site data from any domain as soon as there are no tabs open on that domain, or perhaps 5 minutes after the last such tab closes.
This is an interesting suggestion but I'm not sure if anyone will go through the effort of implementing it anytime soon, either.
Closing this bug as INVALID since it concerns multiple different issues. Feel free to open a new bug for the last suggestion, though again, I can't promise that this will actually ever happen.
Thanks!
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