Your message dated Fri, 21 Feb 2014 15:46:11 +0100
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and subject line Separate important cookies from the junk ones
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regarding iceweasel: Separate important cookies from the junk ones
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.0.9-1
Severity: wishlist
It would be good if iceweasel/firefox had a way to keep cookies that
you really care about separate from the usual collection of
trash cookies that one collects while surfing. That way,
you could have a separate expiration policy (trash expires
in 24 hours, *my* cookies never expire). Or, if you clear
private data, it wouldn't clear your important cookies.
Why? Because cookies can represent subscriptions and
logins. They can represent money you have paid to access
a web site. They can represent the effort you spent to
rummage under your keyboard to find the password for a site :).
You don't want to throw that kind of stuff
away, at least not without explicit manual confirmation.
On the other hand, most (99%) of cookies are either
(a) advertising/tracking cookies which have no value to
the user, or (b) represent the current state of one's progress
through a website (which rarely has value beyond a day).
The world has given us two types of cookies, so the browser
should help us handle each group appropriately.
I would suggest this:
*If a cookie is in the "important" class, it will *only* be accepted
on positive manual confirmation. So, a website would (somehow)
ask that certain cookies be given the manual treatment.
*Then, these cookies would have a separate expiration policy and
would not be affected by the default "clear private data" operation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.1.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.4-3 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-1 /proc file system utilities
ii psmisc 22.7-1 utilities that use the proc file s
ii xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.7-1 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn latex-xft-fonts <none> (no description available)
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 Transitional library package/krb4
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available)
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
ii xulrunner-1.9-gnome- 1.9.0.7-1 Support for GNOME in xulrunner app
-- no debconf information
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Hello,
I am closing this bug. It is not the role of the distribution to develop
this kind of feature.
It should be reported on the Firefox bugtracker:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
And there is now an extension doing it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
Sylvestre
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