198626 - Need "delete (remove, forget) all cookies from this site" in 'Tools -> Cookie Manager'

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: Storage Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[Ido Beeri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

See summary. This option will be useful for many sites. Nothing much to add really.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Damian Yerrick]

Adding a quick way to delete all of a site's cookies would fix the annoying
problem with www.weather.com where I can't figure out how to make it forget
my choice to "Show driving links in this section every day" from within the
site's interface.  (Yes I know I could fix it manually, but I can't tell
which weather.com cookie encodes that preference; might as well zap 'em all.)

I couldn't find any duplicates when searching for |delete cookie| or
|forget cookie|.  Confirming.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 219078 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Robert La Ferla]

This would be incredibly useful!  BTW - Please change to OS field to "All" on
this bug.

Comment 4

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 223307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Damian Yerrick]

Adding "remove" to summary to prevent further dupes like those two.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

do we still want this?  I agree it would be useful, especially to developers,
but I don't want to overbloat the Cookie Manager menu :)

Comment 7

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

We shouldn't do this. It will make the menu even more bloated. And it is near
impossible to do it right. What about iframes with content from other servers
for example? or cookies from "superdomains"?
Just block the site :)

Comment 8

[Robert La Ferla]

This is an important privacy enhancement for users.  While it can also be useful
for developers, that's not the point.  Adding one menu item "Remove all cookies
from this site" to the Tools->CookieManager menu is not going to bloat anything.
 Far from it because there are only 5 items in that menu.  There are menus with
10 items or more on them.  Secondly, you could add this to the Cookie Manager
panel itself.  A button that says "Remove All Cookies From Site" could also be
added next to "Remove All Cookies".

Comment 9

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

It will not only add ui-bloat, but even more code bloat. And there is some easy
other way to do what you want: just delete the cookies from the manager. They
are sorted by domain, so you can easily look for the cookie from a single site.
(maybe they should be sorted by top level domain first, but that is another bug)

Comment 10

[Robert La Ferla]

Adding one menu item or button is not bloat.  Try deleting cookies one at a time
from the cookie manager gui sometime.  It is terrible.  However, I think you are
raising an interesting alternative which is to fix the Cookie Manager.  i.e. 
Sort by top level domain, have it scroll to the selection after deleting a
cookie properly and speed up the GUI so it's not a pain to use.

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

better sorting and a treeview is planned for cookie manager, but that'll require
a large amount of work to implement along with some of the other changes (major)
I would like to make to it.

adding a single menu item on its own would add yet another option, just because
Opera has 15 entries in every menuitem doesn't mean its not bloated UI.  Besides
this, the amount of code needed to do this isn't trivial, and probably would
never work quite properly, as mvl said.

Comment 12

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 241134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 14

[warren crossing]

I advocate that when you select block cookies from this site it should ask you to delete existing cookies. And the response would have a yes /no with a don't ask me again style dialog.

In order to delete the cookie you would essentially block then allow cookies to that site.

It would massivly speed up my website design process and that is the target audience that mozilla seamonkey is aiming for.

Then add an option into preferences->security->cookies "ask before deleting cookies when blocking sites"

Time and time again I have had to "use" the cookie manager for development (to blow the cookies off the plate) and it's not very quick, or fun. or demo friendly... 
in front of all my collegues "and now we remove the registration by deleting the cookie.. oh, nevermind seeing my entire cookie history.. they're just sites I visit in my "downtime" ;-) - whoops"

Comment 15

[Ido Beeri]

When I opened this bug I didn't think of developers, I thought about how many sites remember my settings and history and the need I feel to 'reset' specific sites once in a while to keep my web browsing fresh. But it does seem there are even more needs.

Comment 16

[Ronald van Raaij]

I was thinking along similar lines as warren crossing: I have the confirmation ("ask me every time") setting on. That offers me 3 options, and I would like that when I choose "Block" it would offer me the option to remove all existing cookies as well. 

Comment 17

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

You can now do this from the storage inspector.