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)
Core
Networking: Cookies
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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: 1. 2. 3.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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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.
Comment 3•21 years ago
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This looks just like bug 192176....
Comment 4•21 years ago
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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.
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Updated•21 years ago
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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
Comment 6•21 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75915 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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