245159 - Easier whitelisting of cookies from current site's domain

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Basson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Currently in Firefox, you must go into the settings dialog area (Tools > Options
> Privacy > Cookies > Exceptions) to whitelist a domain, allowing it to set
cookies. This is a bit of a pain compared to Seamonkey's easy-access memus, as
brought up in the following topic:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=80900

While I don't think adding menu bloat is the way to do this, would it be
possible to duplicate the functionality of the Permit Cookies extension by
default, and have a keyboard shortcut to whitelist the current page's domain?

The extension can be found here:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/permitcookies and currently uses
Alt+C, although any good combination would do.

Another great addition would be a "Add current site" button in the Cookie
Exceptions Manager, but it would be somewhat less important if this can be
achieved with a key combination.

Apologies if this is a dupe, I couldn't find anything requesting this. Yes - we
have the extension, but this is a problem that should be solved by default IMO.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable cookies by default, or use any combination that requires whitelisting
of a domain.
2. Load a page which requires cookies.
3. Jump through hoops to whitelist it.

Comment 1

[basic]

I've an extension that does this as a button here
http://basic.mozdev.org/cookiebutton/

Comment 2

[Ben Basson]

Blake, if you (or someone else) could comment on this bug and let me know what
you think is a good/bad idea, I'll go ahead and do the work required to the best
of my abilities.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This has l10n impact, and won't make PR. Whatever happens here needs to be an
extension for 1.0, and we can reconsider it after that.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

related to bug 217199, although not quite a dupe since this could use a different mechanism. marking dependency.

Comment 6

[Frank Sudia]

Whitelisting a site with NoScript is a one-button operation. Yet nothing has been done on this for over 5 years! Chrome doesn't whitelist either, because Google wants you to get ad-track cookies. Does Mozilla bow to Google? Maybe we need an add-in. [-- submitter of Bug 537351]

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We have the page info "Permissions" tab that lets you do this now.