471675 - Need an implementation design for session cookie management

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Spin-off of bug 117222 comment 203 and others, this should cover the design implementation of separate session cookies for new widows/tabs.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Dan, any update on this?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

See bug 117222 comment 236. Basically, what needs to happen here is:

1) A design document on wiki.mozilla.org detailing the goals of this change and how it will affect UX, a preliminary spec, and implementation concerns.

2) A discussion around said wiki page, probably on m.d.platform and among the various people at Mozilla who would be interested in this.

Not trying to be stop-energy here, but this is a fairly big change in behavior, and we should understand clearly what problem we're trying to solve and what new problems it might introduce. I see arguments both ways for this feature.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Also, minor point -- the distinction between session cookies and persistent cookies is largely historical and doesn't have much meaning nowadays, with the advent of sessionstore and such. I suspect that whatever we do here should apply equally to session and persistent cookies. The design document would be the place to hash this out.

Comment 4

[Ed]

Any news on this?

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

PB per Window is out for a while already, apparently this is fixed...

Comment 6

[Ed]

Oh good! Does this mean there is progress on this issue? [Issue 117222] can go forward?