524095 - Sort cookie exceptions by domain

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 142179

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Olivier Mehani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090913 Shiretoko/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090913 Shiretoko/3.5.3

Currently, the cookie exception list is sorted by the beginning of the full DNS name. For example, excetpions for “www.a.com” will be sorted (by name) right next to “www.z.com,” but quite far from, e.g. “a.com.”

This makes it hard to locate some exceptions which may need to be updated related to a given domain which distributes cookies from a specific host (e.g. “login.z.com”).

A list grouped by domain name rather than FQDN as for the cookie list would be a useful improvemente

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open preferences
2. Click on the Exceptions button in the privacy tab
Actual Results:  
The cookies exceptions are sorted alphabetically by FQDN, thus rules for the same domain are scattered throughout the entire list.

Expected Results:  
Cookies for the same domain are groupped together for easy overview.