Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] IceCat 45 IMPORTANT consideration: Keep cookie prompt "ask me every time"

[Daniel Quintiliani]

Why is everyone so opposed to an addon for something that nobody uses? I can't 
imagine anyone clicking 20 dialog boxes per each loaded banner ad. So opposed 
to using an addon that they are unwilling to update serious security problems 
in software?

All I know is that all of this politics is aggravating me and I have not used 
IceCat in months for my own personal safety. I not only have Linux but Windows 
to worry about so having security is more important than whether something 
should be farmed out to an already existing addon or included in the browser. 
IceCat can be a great alternative as it's pro-privacy and anti-DRM. All our 
arguing has delayed an IceCat release for too long and we will not be taken 
seriously as a free browser if we keep arguing about cookies until Firefox 60.0 
ESR is released.

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-Dan Q

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 03:12:22 +0200, David Hedlund <address@hidden> wrote:

>  From https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1118394
> 
> hi, the ask anytime option for cookies was removed in firefox 44, which 
> was supposed to happen for a long time (bug 606655).
> 
> i would recommend the following setup instead: in the custom history 
> options choose "keep until i close firefox" as a default option & set 
> exceptions for the few sites where you want stay logged-in across 
> sessions. this way you'll have less work to do over all and a 
> privacy-minded setup after all.
> 
> or as an alternative you could also take a look at an extension like 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
> 
> 
> Lots of people complain about this. Consider to keep the code for 
> cookies "ask me every time" from Firefox 43 for IceCat 45.
> 
> 
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