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Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org)
ewhac writes: Among its other desirable features, Firefox included a feature allowing very fine-grained cookie management. When enabled, every time a Web site asked to set a cookie, Firefox would raise a dialog containing information about the cookie requested, which you could then approve or deny. An "exception" list also allowed you to mark selected domains as "Always allow" or "Always deny", so that the dialog would not appear for frequently-visited sites. It was an excellent way to maintain close, custom control over which sites could set cookies, and which specific cookies they could set. It also helped easily identify poorly-coded sites that unnecessarily requested cookies for every single asset, or which would hit the browser with a "cookie storm" — hundreds of concurrent cookie requests.
Mozilla quietly deleted this feature from Firefox 44, with no functional equivalent put in its place. Further, users who had enabled the "Ask before accept" feature have had that preference silently changed to, "Accept normally." The proffered excuse for the removal was that the feature was unmaintained, and that its users were, "probably crashing multiple times a day as a result" (although no evidence was presented to support this assertion). Mozilla's apparent position is that users wishing fine-grained cookie control should be using a third-party add-on instead, and that an "Ask before accept" option was, "not really nice to use on today's Web."
Mozilla quietly deleted this feature from Firefox 44, with no functional equivalent put in its place. Further, users who had enabled the "Ask before accept" feature have had that preference silently changed to, "Accept normally." The proffered excuse for the removal was that the feature was unmaintained, and that its users were, "probably crashing multiple times a day as a result" (although no evidence was presented to support this assertion). Mozilla's apparent position is that users wishing fine-grained cookie control should be using a third-party add-on instead, and that an "Ask before accept" option was, "not really nice to use on today's Web."
Seems to be as fine grained as I need.
They seem to be really trying to shoot themselves in the foot lately.
And in true Mozilla fashion, my post to the mailing list, where Mozilla told people to discuss the issue, was rejected by the moderator:
To: firefox-dev@mozilla.org
Subject: Cookies in Firefox 44
The recent change to how cookies were handled in Firefox 44 should be reverted.
Stifling discussion on the bug tracker is also bad form.
Your request to the firefox-dev mailing list
Posting of your message titled "Cookies in Firefox 44"
has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
following reason for rejecting your request:
"Bugzilla is for tracking technical work, it's not a debate forum.
Firefox-dev is the proper place to discuss such things, but as your
message isn't adding substantive to the discussion I'm rejecting it."
Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
at:
firefox-dev-owner@mozilla.org
Bye, Mozilla.
No, its the "FUCK YOU! we know how to use our browser better than you" philosophy.
Yes, I "shouted". Obviously to OP has no clue.
Denying the creation of a cookie in the first place has nothing to do with deleting them when Firefox is closed (whoever closes ALL of their FF windows anyway?).
I hope Pale Moon keeps the feature, but, IMO, FF44 is now nearly useless.