16866 - Cookie Manager: should allow undo/cancel of deletion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Thomas, usability weenie]

Next to the `Delete cookie' button, the cookie manager dialog should have a
`Restore All' button which returns all cookies deleted (while the dialog was
open) to the list. This way, if a user is deleting multiple cookies and
accidentally deletes one she intended to keep, she does not have to Cancel and
then reopen the Cookie manager before deleting the correct cookies.

-- mpt

Comment 1

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

"after exams"

Comment 2

[don]

And after beta 1 ...

Comment 3

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

not a priority, pushing out as far as possible.

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

There is no M30

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Would "undo delete" and "undo multiple delete" be useful?

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

`Undo' might be useful, though that could be stretching things. Certainly Ctrl+Z 

should work.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape nav triage team: based on Steve Morse's pre-triage recommendation, this 
is not a beta stopper.

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

Why Ben's? -> Cookies

Comment 9

[benc]

Updated summary, There is no cancel mode anymore, I think this changed when the
CM went non-modal....

Comment 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

-> me for now, YACMB

Thinking about this, how beneficial is this?  I don't think bringing back Cancel
is viable,  but Undo could be done, the question is how many problems have we
had from NOT having this?  No dupes, no votes, no cc's of note.  After four and
a half years, that's not exactly showing this as a widely desired feature.

Problems to overcome if we want to implement this:
The cookies would need to be deleted from the live cookie array and stored
separately.  This is because the dialog is not modal, therefore people can and
will continue to use/set cookies while the Undo state exists.  Where this
can/will become a problem is if we are restoring all of the deleted cookies, we
would in some cases be overwriting newer cookies, which would cause
bad/unexpected results for users.

To overcome the first example above, we would need to implement some sort of
selective delete (basically spawning another cookieviewer-like window showing
the deleted cookies and allowing the user to restore selected cookies).  This
would be just more bloat for a borderline feature.  We'd still have the
potential for problems if/when someone chooses to restore an older cookie over
the newer cookie, but at least the user would be aware of what's going on.

So basically, we have a feature that doesn't seem to have any user demand, and
in fact compared to the original report the current situation is actually worse,
yet we have no demand for implementing this.

If anyone can give me a reason to implement all of this, I can reconsider, but
I'm strongly inclined to just WONTFIX this.

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

if someone does want to do this for seamonkey, they're welcome to try, but it
won't be me :)  not marking WONTFIX, but I expect this bug to remain open forever

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

ok then, i will.