2040361 - Hide cookie behavior 3 and 4 from about:preferences when not currently enabled

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Privacy: Anti-Tracking, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

As one of the steps to For deprecating tracker cookie blocking, we should hide the option in our settings page. It probably should still be shown when the mode is active though.

Comment 1

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

Attachment: Bug 2040361 - Hide cookie behaviors 3 and 4 from about:preferences when not currently enabled r=#anti-tracking

Both modes BEHAVIOR_LIMIT_FOREIGN (3) and BEHAVIOR_REJECT_TRACKER (4)
don't partition cookies.

BEHAVIOR_PARTITION_FOREIGN (5) can be used as replacement for (4) we do
tracker cookie purging and in the future also bounce tracking by
default.

BEHAVIOR_REJECT_FOREIGN (1) can be used as replacement for (3) in
combination with the cookie permission.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/5bc9504658b7
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/56e7ce8c21a1
Hide cookie behaviors 3 and 4 from about:preferences when not currently enabled r=emz,hjones

Comment 3

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/56e7ce8c21a1

Comment 4

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Removing options from settings. 1% of users are still in one of the mode for one reason or another. We'll migrate users.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: Yes with bug 2043563
[Suggested wording]: Outdated cookie settings have been removed from the Settings UI. Users still in that mode should switch to default behavior "Isolate cross-site cookies". More information
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/dXvMLkzyFqM

Not sure if it is good to link the google groups email. It does contain very detailed information for anyone still using the old mode. However, it likely is too technical for consumer notes.

Comment 5

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

Added to our beta notes