407627 - cookie policy choice sheet has non-optimal default selection (IMO)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[Alex Watson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4

The following sheet comes up when a site wants to set a cookie:
------
* wants to set a cookie.
[ ] Remember this decision
[Allow for session] - [Deny] - [Allow]
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Currently filled highlight (return selects) is on "Allow", and edge highlight (space selects) is on "Remember this decision".

It would make more sense for edge highlight to be on either "Allow for session" or "Deny" to improve speed & ease of mouseless browsing. i.e., I can hit Return or Space when I get the popup, rather than Return or TAB-TAB-TAB-TAB-Space.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select 'Ask me before accepting each cookie' in Privacy pane
2. Go to any new website that uses cookies.



This is Mac OS X 10.3.9; I don't know enough about OS integration to know if that is relevant!

Of course this is something of a matter of opinion, and if others have persuasive arguments (or a majority) against I will readily concede the point.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

It is set up in this manner to allow easy selection of remembering (which would otherwise require extensive tabbing to change); Allow and Deny both have keyboard shortcuts that don't require tabbing, and Allow for Session will in the future (bug 343536).

Comment 2

[Alex Watson]

Adding a shortcut key for Allow for Session would actually be a better fix. It would be useful for these shortcuts to be documented. I for one was unaware that Esc mapped to Deny (although it is the Right Thing for it to do).

I'm happy to go for WONTFIX in favour of bug 343536.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yeah, I think the way we have it set up now is probably the best default, and once we get the accelerator for Allow for Session, it'll be a moot point.

In the meantime, Alex, you might want to consider setting all cookies to be session cookies and then whitelisting the occasional site whose cookies you actually need. That's what I do, and it saves me the trouble of being asked (at the marginal extra expense of remembering to whitelist the cookies of the few sites where I need them to persist across sessions).

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