Closed Bug 178048 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Extend whitelisting to also cover cookies

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(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75915

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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.
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?
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
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.
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
Midair collision ;-)
If I'm not mistaken, this is a dupe of bug 174556 which was duped to bug 75915.
Summary: Add setting to reject cookies by default, but allow cookies from selected sites. → Extend whitelisting to also cover cookies

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75915 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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)?
*** Bug 178664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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)
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.
Mass verifiying old duplicates.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 210659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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