156858 - Cookie Manager could use an "Add Site" button

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75915

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Simonds]

Preamble:
I'm sure that comparisons with Internet Exploder don't win any points on their
own, but IE and it's silly "security zones" tab allows me to do something quite
useful: have a "whitelist" of ("trusted") sites for which I want to accept
cookies, and any site not on the list is, de facto, not allowed to set cookies.
 With Mozilla's "remember decision" feature I can build a "blacklist" of sites
pretty easily, but it requires me to click the "No" quite a bit more than the
alternative, and is pretty messy, comparatively speaking.

Proposition:
Allowing users to enter sitenames and cookie-setting-ability into the Cookie
Manager manually, combined with the ability of Mozilla to recognize a "default
site" entry, would IMO give people exceptionally fine-grained control over how
they deal with cookies.  If this is currently possible somehow, I'd appreciate
instructions on what to do, if it's not, I think it would be a worthy endeavour.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

Dupe of bug 33467?

Not sure about the whitelist part. When disabling cookies, can the 'allow' sites
in cookie manager still set cookies?

Comment 2

[Nicolas Simonds]

No sir, the "disable all cookies" option does precisely what it says.  =)

This does appear to be a dupe of bug 33467, with the exception of my "default
case" suggestion.  If the two can/should be combined, all the better.

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

I think that the other issue is bug 75915
(but there are other bugs for example to get an UI for something like security
zones)
And you can take a look at all the enhancements in
http://www.cc-net.or.jp/~piro/xul/xul.html

Comment 4

[Nicolas Simonds]

This issue is most definitely is a dupe of bug 75915.  Funny part is, I searched
for quite a while to make sure I didn't have a dupe before posting this.  I
guess I should have opened my eyes.  =)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75915 ***

Comment 5

[Alfonso Martinez]

v.