Closed
Bug 178048
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Extend whitelisting to also cover cookies
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(Firefox :: General, enhancement)
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(Reporter: michael99, Assigned: bugzilla)
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I would like to be able to disable cookies for all sites except those I choose -- reproducing behavior possible in Mozilla (and IE I believe). This may be possible in Pheonix, but isn't clear or easy. 1) It is not clear that if I select "Disable Cookes" whether the sites in my Cookie Sites page can still use cookies. 2) Even if they can use cookies, there is no way to add sites on the Cookie Sites page. One would have to re-enable cookies + prompting, revisit the page, answer yes to the prompt(s), and disable cookies again. A few sites need cookies, plus some are more convenient with cookies. "Ask" is irritating since some days I'll browse many sites looking for something (following links from a search engine). Thanks.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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How does Phoenix's behaviour differ from Mozilla's? One cannot add sites to Mozilla's cookie list without being prompted either. The cookie manager appears to be identical to me. I think this would be a worthy addition, but first can you tell us how you add a site to Mozilla's allow list without having Mozilla prompt you with an annoying pop-up?
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Tools >> Cookie Manager >> Block/Unblock cookies from this site is the way it's done with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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The behavior I was looking for was actually IE's, not Mozilla's. My mistake. The Unblock menu item in Mozilla doesn't really get me what I want. It appears that the Unblock menu item only works if the site has been specifically blocked. If I choose Disable Cookies and do not have a site in my list of blocked sites, I cannot unblock it. That makes sense because the real problem is that I do not want to *disable* cookies, I want a default policy of rejecting cookes. I want to be able to override this policy for specific websites.
Summary: Consider allowing only selected sites to use cookies -- would need "Add Site" button. → Add setting to reject cookies by default, but allow cookies from selected sites.
Comment 4•22 years ago
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Re comment #2 That's an added bit of accessibilty to the cookie manager, but it isn't anything inherently different. If I'm browsing the internet with cookies disabled, then that Block/Unblock functionality doesn't exist in any practical sense. For instance, if I go to http://mail.yahoo.com/ in Moz 1.2 with cookies disabled, there is no way to add Yahoo to a list of accepted sites except by enabling cookies with the prompt, proceeding, and disabling cookies again. And the next time I visit yahoo mail, I have to go through the same process again. What is needed is something like the popup windows whitelist when you have popups disabled; instead of an 'i' icon appearing you get a cookie icon in the status bar which when clicked gives you the option of allowing this site to set cookies. Having a menu item under Tools would be nice as well, plus perhaps a keyboard shortcut of some type. This would allow you to browse with cookies disabled whilst enabling certain sites. http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback/read.php?f=15&i=1444&t=1444
Comment 5•22 years ago
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Midair collision ;-)
If I'm not mistaken, this is a dupe of bug 174556 which was duped to bug 75915.
Updated•22 years ago
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Summary: Add setting to reject cookies by default, but allow cookies from selected sites. → Extend whitelisting to also cover cookies
Comment 7•22 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75915 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 8•22 years ago
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Asa, Can we assume by your marking as a duplicate that Phoenix is going to pick up this enhancement when it occurs in Mozilla (target 1.3 alpha)?
Comment 9•22 years ago
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*** Bug 178664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•22 years ago
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André, You've marked bug 178664 as a dupe of this bug, yet this bug has already been marked as a dupe of bug 75915 by Asa. Are you sure that this is what you want to do? ;-) (I'm assuming from Asa's marking this as a dupe that Mozilla will soon have cookie whitelisting and, as a result, so will Phoenix)
Comment 11•22 years ago
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Yes, that was in fact on purpose. I didn't want to dupe it against the bug 75915 directly because I thought it might not be as obvoius to the reporter of the other bug that it was in fact a duplicate.
Comment 13•21 years ago
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*** Bug 210659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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