511299 - Remove All Cookies should have a confirmation dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210173

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Scott Garman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

If a user views their cookies from the Preferences->Privacy->Show Cookies window and wishes to delete some of their cookies, it is trivially easy to accidentally hit the "Remove All Cookies" button instead, which performs the deletion immediately and permanently. This action has have significant consequences and yet there is no confirmation dialog to inform the user that all of their browser cookies are about to be deleted.

I humbly suggest that a simple confirmation dialog be added to this action before following through on the operation.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View your cookies by going to Edit->Preferences->Privacy Tab->Show Cookies
2. Press the Remove All Cookies button
Actual Results:  
All cookies are immediately and permanently deleted

Expected Results:  
A confirmation dialog should prompt the user to confirm the deletion, perhaps with a message along the lines of "Do you really want to delete all of your browser cookies? There is no undo."

This bug may be related to bug #285836. If the operation could be undone this bug would be obsoleted.

Comment 1

[Scott Garman]

Looks like the issue has been debated and decided upon already.