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From: | Sylvain |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Cookie confirmation dialog loss in Firefox; affects GNU IceCat |
Date: | Thu, 18 Feb 2016 06:14:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 |
Hi, I confirm the feeling of a serious loss of security and accessibility. I was using this feature quite smoothly since few months without any problem. I didn't lost my cookie access list. Only strangely Firefox came accepting all cookies. (after upgrade) Passing from "asking for all cookies" to "accept all cookies"! That's why I'm looking at your list to follow if this limitation also merge into Icecat. Here some more links: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/43aftm/firefox_440_removed_always_ask_option_for_cookies/ - some user noticed the bug here So for me, please no, do not merge this limitation into Icecat. Regards, Sylvain. On 18/02/2016 04:15, Mart Rootamm
wrote:
Hi there. After Firefox 44.0 was released, it turned out, that it lost the cookie confirmation dialog, and upgrading to version 44.0 also deleted all per-site permissions for cookies. It's a reduction of privacy options, and also introduces some dataloss. All this was achieved in Mozilla Bug 606655 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606655 Dataloss reported here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606655#c44 After Firefox 44.0 release, many ferociously complained in Bugzilla, and the bug was thereafter restricted to any new comments; any relevant discussion was moved here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2016-February/thread.html#3890 Note, that SeaMonkey also experienced the same backend/UI loss: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235199 For the time being, people can stay with Firefox 43.0.4 or Firefox 38.6.x ESR. There is, though, a strong possibility, that Firefox 45 ESR (based on Firefox 45, planned to be released on March 8) won't have the cookie confirmation functionality anymore. I was thinking, that cookie confirmation dialogs should be retained in IceCat, given that IceCat is much more privacy-conscious. -M. -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org |
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