83602 - remembering decisions for a session

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[malicose]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010531
BuildID:    2001053104

some sites present a flurry of cookies upon entry that are temporarily
necessary; I believe the two options, clicking accept repeatedly and remembering
this decision and later having to manually forget it, are both needlessly involved

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
any site requiring cookies that may only need a single or session-long visit

Expected Results:  Mozilla should provide two options after "Remember this
decision": one for a permanent acceptance and another just accepting until the
session end; Garth Wallace also suggested on the wishlist that "it may be useful
for more than just cookies."

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53354 ***

Comment 2

[Garth Wallace]

I don't think this is a dup of 53354. That's about reducing the lifetime of the 
cookie, this is about remembering the decision (which may be to accept, to 
reject, or to accept with a reduced lifetime) for the session so the dialog 
doesn't keep popping up every time the server tries to set that cookie.

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN:
dupeme.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080919103915 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

WFM. My default setting is "Ask me" so whenever an unknown server tries to set a cookie, a dialog pops up, with three buttons and a checkbox. Quoting from memory, the buttons are "Accept", "Accept for session" and "Reject", and the checkbox is (what amounts to) [ ] Apply this decision to all cookies from the same site.

The above corresponds to my reading of the "Expected results" from comment #0

If you want to REOPEN, please specify on which _current_ build you cannot restrict sites to setting only session cookies.