Closed Bug 47970 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

[RFE] Warn before accepting a cookie is nearly useless

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement, P3)

All
Linux
enhancement

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 23508

People

(Reporter: greerga, Assigned: morse)

Details

The current prompt ("accept the cookie?") no longer has information pertaining to what the cookie actually is. Certain sites may have tracking cookies that are not wanted but still have date/time cookies to show the relative newness of information on the site. The current behavior doesn't allow a judgement on the value of the cookie and it little better than simply turning them off. The Internet Explorer behavior (pushing the >> button for the information on each window) is annoying, but far ahead of current Mozilla. Netscape 4.x has the best behavior so far, giving the entire data of the cookie. The only recommendation I could give there is to possible word-wrap long cookies. Then the cookie information would be much better.
Sounds like an enhancement.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Warn before accepting a cookie is nearly useless → [RFE] Warn before accepting a cookie is nearly useless
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23508 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
vrfy dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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