1680324 - Adding a cookie exception for https://www.youtube.com still clears cookies for .youtube.com

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, defect, P3)

Description

[mike]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:83.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/83.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox options>Privacy and Security>Cookies and Site data>Manage Exceptions

Actual results:

I can save the site data for the url https://www.youtube.com, but I have to log in after closing and reopening Firefox.

Expected results:

Should have kept me logged in to the YouTube site after re opening the browser.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

comment #0 is not explicit about it, but I assume you have cookies and site data set to clear when closing Firefox?

If so, I expect it's not working because youtube login state relies on https://accounts.google.com. You would need to make an exception for that site, too. Does adding that help?

Comment 3

[mike]

Yes that helps. When I close Firefox and re-open, the YouTube site is still signed out. However, when I click sign in it does so without my having to type my user name and password. So, it looks like we are half way there.

Mike

Comment 4

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Hmm that seems weird since the relevant cookies should be on .youtube.com and that shouldn't get cleared when you have added https://www.youtube.com to the list. Can you try adding https://youtube.com? Don't forget that you need to press "Save Changes" in the dialog.

Comment 5

[mike]

That worked perfectly!

Comment 6

[mike]

Thank you for looking into this issue.

Mike

Comment 7

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Thanks! I guess this is similar to bug 1629667 but not quite. It's probably a matter of how we define these exceptions, mostly..