479434 - Cookie whitelist does not protect cookies from some forms of automatic deletion

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Hewitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I like to clean out my cookies to get rid of crud from advertising sites and generally keep things nice.

However doing this requires I have to log back into facebook and reset other cookies that I didn't particular want to clear.

I suggest implementing a list of perma-cookies that allow for certain cookies to be kept by default (unless you tick the clear perma-cookies box in delete private info).



Why not simply use the white list that already exists, I hear you cry. Well that means a major inconvenience whenever I visit other sites that require cookies to use. I have to manually add these sites of the list or disable my preferences. A list of perma cookies would allow for this as it doesn't affect day to day cookie collecting

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get annoyed at loads of cookies
2. Clear cookies
3. Get annoyed at useful cookies being cleared

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Indeed not sure what you mean. You can set Firefox to clear all cookies on exit, except the ones you put in your whitelist (logins etc.). And you can exclude unwanted cookies in the permanent block list.

Comment 2

[Peter Hewitt]

If I set cookies to clear "when i close firefox" then it clears those in the whitelist too. Unless I'm doing something wrong.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Probably. Maybe wrong "Clear Private Data" settings?

Comment 4

[Peter Hewitt]

I'm marking this bug as invalid as I don't think its relevant anymore and the concept has been superseded by the behaviour of IE9 in this regard.