301540 - "ask before accepting" only non-session cookies (silently accept session)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

It doesn't appear that firefox v1.04. really implements what has been asked for
in Bug 64336.

I can silently accept all cookies and limit their lifetime.

But some cookies are designed with a lifetime more than just for a session for a
good reason and I would rather not interfere with those (selected) applications.

So, what is probably needed is a fourth option for "Keep Cookies", namely
 
  "ask me every time unless they last only for the current session"

I am opening a new bug because I can neither re-open the above nor Bug 205793.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Its a hidden preference that we're not going to expose UI for.  Just set
network.cookie.alwaysAcceptSessionCookies to true in about:config with "ask
every time set" and you're set.

Comment 2

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

*** Bug 328549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Kevin Smith]

Here's what I said in the duplicate bug (yes, I did extensive searching before adding it, but for some reason didn't find this one):

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The current cookie management preferences don't allow me to work in my
preferred way: 1) Any session cookie should be silently allowed. These do not
intrude on my privacy, so there is no reason to deny them. 2) Other
(persistent) cookies should ask me, so I can decide between allowing them for
this session or until they expire (or in rare cases to deny them entirely).

This seems like such a straightforward and sane setting that I'm surprised it
hasn't already been suggested (let alone implemented).
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Perhaps you could share the reasoning for not exposing this feature in the UI?