603090 - Support form restore for securely transmitted site (HTTPS)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Philip Chee]

Just like Firefox Bug 424872:

> Mike Beltzner [:beltzner]      2008-03-24 15:25:28 PDT
> 
> The ssl caching improvements should now allow us to set these defaults to
> improve behaviour on session restore.

> Mike Beltzner [:beltzner]      2010-10-04 06:51:22 PDT
> 
> I *believe* that we should save all user generated content by default. It's the
> most friendly and helpful thing to do (though can ultimately be abused by local
> snoopers - but that's what Private Browsing Mode is for, IMO).
> 
> I am uncertain why this relates at all to the cache-control information. If the
> website says that we shouldn't cache its content, then we should observe that
> instruction, but not have that affect how we save user generated content (such
> as the page location or any information they have typed into a textarea).

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

Attachment: set privacy_level and privacy_level_deferred to 0

> +// the same as browser.sessionstore.privacy_level, but for saving deferred session data
> +pref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level_deferred", 0);

Jumping the gun slightly since we haven't yet ported Firefox Bug 588482 (Restore Session on-demand after startup)

Comment 2

[Misak Khachatryan]

Comment on attachment 482043 [details] [diff] [review]
set privacy_level and privacy_level_deferred to 0

I'm in process of porting deferred session restore, BTW.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

> I'm in process of porting deferred session restore, BTW.
I couldn't find a SeaMonkey bug number.

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 482043 [details] [diff] [review]
set privacy_level and privacy_level_deferred to 0

I'm not convinced that we need a separate pref for deferred session restore...

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

> [e-mail]      2010-10-10 12:28:12 PDT
> 
> Comment on attachment 482043 [details] [diff] [review]
> set privacy_level and privacy_level_deferred to 0
> 
> I'm not convinced that we need a separate pref for deferred session restore...

Leaving this out. I'll let Misak deal with this in his deferred session restore.

Pushed to comm-central:
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/e78fa2721042