Closed Bug 286266 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Make --disable-cookies not add frontend UI

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: iannbugzilla, Unassigned)

Details

When building with --disable-cookies alot of UI stuff is added which is not
needed (and probably doesn't work).
--disable-cookies is an embedding flag, not meant for ordinary use with XUL
apps. Unless you plan on fixing and maintaining, this should be WONTFIX.
I agree with bsmedberg - we added the flag so embeddors would have a way of
cutting bloat. --disable-cookies isn't in any way useful to the apps and folks
shouldn't mess with it.

if you think the configure docs for this build option should be augmented to
state its danger, feel free ;)
I was looking for an easy way to drop that xul/js code for people that are not
as miminalistic as embedors but do their own thing when it comes to popups,
cookies, etc - timeless for example
That should be handled by app-specific code, not by this core flag. WONTFIX
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
The reason why this is WONTFIX IMO is that we want to eventually base the apps
on a common runtime.  That common runtime will always have support for cookies,
so it won't make sense to piggy back this build flag at that point.  If you
don't want cookies support in the FE, then add a separate build option.
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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