266179 - Clear Cookies button should have an "Are you sure?" dialog box confirmation

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210173

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Trogdor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When the user chooses to clear cookies, cookies are immediately deleted.

This is a pretty catastrophic action, and before it occurs, the user should be
prompted with a dialog box saying "Are you sure you want to clear all cookies?"
dialog box.  (I have no opinion whether "Yes" or "No" should be the default.)

Yes, I'm writing this bug because I accidentally cleared all my cookies in this
manner.  Classifying it as a bug rather than a feature request because IMO the
lack of a warning alert in this case is a design flaw.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to Tools->Options and click Privacy.
2.  Expand the "Cookies" item, and click the "Clear" button next to it.


Actual Results:  
All cookies were immediately deleted.

Expected Results:  
Should display a dialog box saying "Are you sure you want to clear all cookies?"
dialog box with "Yes" and "No" buttons.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210173 ***