[Bug 491683] Re: No way to selectively allow/disallow cookies on thefly. IE has had that for years....

[alabamatoy]

 Thanks for your prompt response.  I greatly appreciate the help!


Herndon Elliott
KE4KUZ

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times
of great moral conflict." -- Martin Luther King, April 30, 1967 at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounces at canonical.com [mailto:bounces at canonical.com] On 
> Behalf Of Marc Deslauriers
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:02 AM
> To: helliott at knology.net
> Subject: [Bug 491683] Re: No way to selectively 
> allow/disallow cookies on thefly. IE has had that for years....
> 
> Firefox has this option also:
> 
> Edit/Preferences/Privacy
> 
> Select "Use custom settings for history"
> Select "ask me every time" in the "Keep until" setting.
> 
> 
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
> 
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
> 
> --
> No way to selectively allow/disallow cookies on the fly.  IE 
> has had that for years....
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491683
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> subscriber of the bug.
> 
> Status in "firefox-3.0" package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> 
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
> 
> Ie allows me to set cookies to "prompt" so that I get to 
> enable or disable the DL of a cookie on the fly.  It appears 
> that FF only allows you to either enable cookies or disable 
> cookies, or after enabling go in and manually enter sites to 
> allow or disallow.  This is hooribly insecure compared to the 
> IE feature of prompting for each one to be allowed or disallowed.
> 
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
>

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No way to selectively allow/disallow cookies on the fly.  IE has had that for years....
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