308212 - Cookie Exceptions: no confirmation for Remove All Sites

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[jmunowitch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

In Options -> Privacy -> Cookies under the Exception Window, Accidentally
pressing "Remove All Sites" does not produce a Confirmation Dialog.  After
browsing with Firefox for a while, these sites can add up, and replacing it can
be time filling. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clicked 'Tools' menu
2. Selected 'Options'
3. Clicked 'Privacy' Catagory
4. Selected 'Cookies' Tab
5. Clicked the 'Exceptions' Button
6. Clicked on the 'Remove All Sites' button

Actual Results:  
All Cookie Exceptions were Cleared

Expected Results:  
A Confirmation Dialog should have poped up and asked to confirm, and then clear

Comment 1

[Niels Madsen]

Did it use to do this or is this a request for the feature?
This really does seem nessecary, that would be very annoying to do by an accident.

Comment 2

[jmunowitch]

I guess its a request for a feature.  
I changed it to Enhancement

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The problem is, that when you hit the button "Clear Cookies Now" by accident, it
deletes all cookies, also the ones in the whitelist (logins etc.).
It is not a disaster, for I have copies of the cookies.txt file, but a warning
would be a good idea indeed.

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Note bug 210173, wontfixed by mconnor because "losing cookies is not drastic
enough to require a dialog." I think this will also be wontfixed eventually.

Comment 5

[John Vandenberg]

As Nickolay has pointed out, there is a bug number for this enhancement.  Vote
for, or comment on, bug 210173 if you feel strongly about it.

Another way of tackling this user-requested dataloss issue is being considered
on Bug 285836.

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

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Not a duplicate (of that, anyway): clearing exceptions isn't the same thing as clearing cookies themselves, and you could conceivably make a case for casually clearing exceptions being a much more rare action.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 351567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070522 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Comment 9

[Steven]

"Did it use to do this or is this a request for the feature?
This really does seem nessecary, that would be very annoying to do by an accident."

I'd like to report that Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 also has this bug, and the reason I'm here is because I just clicked on the Remove All Sites accidentally. So, I, personally can vouch for it being annoying. :)

I doubt I'll be making the same mistake anytime soon, but I think it easily falls in line with Firefox's user-friendly goals to have this double-check to see if the user really wants to do such an operation that can be so drastic.

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

related to bug 285836.