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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
