416895 - Add string "webapps session and persistent storage" to cookies management in preferences

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Thomas Schwecherl]

The webapps session and persistent storage (bug 335540) was implemented in branch 1.8.1. Since bug 341524 this storage follows the cookie prefs. But "nobody" knows that this storage exists. It follows the cookie prefs secretly and I think that's an issue of privacy of the personal data and an issue of openness of Mozilla as an open source project.

So I suggest to add an adequate string to the cookies management in the privacy tab of the preferences. We should rename "Cookies" in "Cookies and session and persistent storage" or whatever that the user can see what this pref is entirely doing.

Comment 1

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

Wasn't this fixed in bug 394392?

Comment 2

[Thomas Schwecherl]

I mean http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#storage aka DOM:storage (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage) and not http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#offline which bug 394392 covers.

Anyway, it is not visible in the cookies management that "webapps session and persistent storage" behavior is chained to cookies behavior - or that such "enhanced cookies" exists at all.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think we should just make them look like cookies and call them cookies (bug 449981).  Users don't care whether they came from a header called "Cookie" or a DOM API.  They care that a site can remember them, and "cookie" is the most well-known term for that concept.

Comment 4

[Denoyse]

I detected a privacy issue regarding the deletion of storage data on firefox close:

I checked nearly every checkbox to delete my chronic when firefox closes (except visited sites, form data and stored passwords). As a result, local storage gets deleted (i think via "offline website data" or "cookies").

However, session storage stays intact. I think there is no corresponding checkbox for session storage, but there should be one. This is exactly what the delete chronic on close dialog is for!

Does this fit in here or should i open a separate bug?