277281 - Import Restricted Sites list from MSIE

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260274

(Firefox :: Migration, enhancement)

Description

[jcaesar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

There are too many cookies to manually accept and decline. It's easier to
blacklist sites with annoying pop-up ads, on-exit ads (they have the gaul to
punish you for leaving their **** website), activeX and cookie-encrusted
banners, data miners, browser hijacks, auto-redirects and tracking cookies.
Losing the Flash and Shock ads is a fringe benefit.
Whitelisting sites is risky since they may be duped by an ad agency or just get
greedy when someone points out they could make an extra 30 cents (and instead
lose customers). Retype, by hand, one-at-a-time, and in a way-too-small window,
your blacklist or just deal with it?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Dowload and install Firefox
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing (that's a bad thing)

Expected Results:  
imported Restricted Sites list
imported Trusted Sites list
imported "Per Site Privacy Actions" and "Manage Sites" list
placed them in a bigger window (perhaps big enough to see an URL?)
confirmed the presence of an automatic blacklister for URLs in the manner of
ad*.*.com (I'm not totally against ads, but I'm not letting them use cookies)

Comment 1

[Michael Hendricks]

The following URL has a partial solution to this bug (in Perl and not a patch
against Firefox).  Basically, it just adds the list of sites in Internet
Explorer's "Per Site Privacy Actions" to Firefox's hostperm.1 file in the
default profile.

http://palmcluster.org/firefox/privacy.html

I thought the sample code might be useful for anyone addressing this issue in
the Firefox code.