2050102 - Make clear on shutdown exception clear per cookie jar

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Data Sanitization, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

This makes the exception match the cookie jar list and also makes it more predictable to use. If you want to stay logged in into a website, you need to set a shutdown exception for that site. No other side effects of other partitions being affected.

I was wondering why cookies for some websites on the list weren't deleted on shutdown. It turns out they were cookies for google domains. I do have an exception for some google sites (such as calendar) to stay logged in, but third party google cookies don't need to persist for other websites (e.g. ikea). If I want to stay logged in there, I'd set an exception.

It might make sense to bundle the change to the same version as bug 1767271 (Fx154) to have fewer versions with changes in behavior in that area.

Comment 1

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

Attachment: Bug 2050102 - Make clear shutdown exceptions only exempt cookie jar r=emz

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/cf66171cb894
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/61a5adaab6ae
Make clear shutdown exceptions only exempt cookie jar r=emz