Closed Bug 200873 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Cookies need a disabled-but-with-icon interface similar to pop-ups

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75915

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(Reporter: target, Assigned: darin.moz)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020518
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020518

The "Ask me before storing a cookie" feature has some limitations that interfere
with the browsing experience. Namely, so many sites use cookies that the dialog
becomes as frequent and intrusive as pop-up ads. Going into preferences to
enable/disable cookies every time they're actually needed is even worse.

Cookie handling could use an option by which you disable NEW cookies, but sites
you've allowed can continue to use them.
The feature would then include an icon on the bottom of the window for pages
trying to set new cookies that the user could click for the allow/disallow
cookie dialog.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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This would be a great improvement if it could be done. The only problem I see
with it is that sites that require a cookie set to load (such as ebay.com)
wouldn't come up properly without a dialog coming up.
If the site wants to set new cookies, clicking the proposed cookie icon would
give you the same dialog that currently pops up on its own with the "ask me"
option. Once you allow/disallow the cookie, the icon should go away. If there's
another one in line the cookie icon would show up again.

Perhaps a seperate enhancement could also be added to the current cookie
dialogs: A list of all the cookies the content in the current browser window
wants to use (rather than popping dialogs up one after the other). That would be
useful in and of itself, and would also take care of cookie sets.
This looks just like bug 192176....
If you're ok with the default being "restrict cookie to session" (rather than
"disable completely", which has the problem mentioned in comment 1), then this
is a dup of bug 75915 via bug 67580.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
I did a search before submitting this, but didn't find those bugs. Didn't choose
just the right words to find the needle in the haystack. :)

bug 192176 looks closest to what I'm thinking of. I don't know about everyone
else, but I prefer to disable cookies completely save for those I specifically
allow. Doing this right now is extremely cumbersome as it involves constantly
flipping cookie settings. A toolbar icon a-la pop-up blocking would be great.

Actually, being able to additionally choose the lifetime of allowed cookes on a
site-by-site basis would be ideal.
eg: I could allow www.yahoo.com to set session cookies, www.ebay.com to set
cookies that last a maximum of 4 days, or bugzilla.mozilla.org to set cookies of
any duration.
Summary: Cookies need a disabled-but-with-icon inferace similar to pop-ups → Cookies need a disabled-but-with-icon interface similar to pop-ups

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75915 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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