Self-Destructing Cookies
Implement a similar functionnality
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Yvon TANGUY
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Yvon TANGUY
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Yvon TANGUY
- Definition:
- Drafting
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trunk
- Implementation:
- Not started
- Milestone target:
- 1.10.0
- Started by
- Completed by
Related branches
Sprints
Whiteboard
From a user comment:
"Although non-protected cookies may be deleted on-demand and upon Firefox's exit, an enhancement of this would be to force non-protected cookies to be culled after either one of two events has occurred:
a) a predetermined configurable time has elapsed after a cookie's last access time
b) when the cookies are no longer used by currently open tabs"
For the 'b' proposition, we will need to know the cookies of the current tab, this will be implemented for the blueprint "current-
Work Items
Work items:
Preferences panel: Add an option to set the max idle life of a cookie (time since last access), in hours/days: TODO
Preferences panel: Add an option to set the delay between two checks: TODO
Preferences panel: Add an option (checkbox) "Delete only if no open tab can use theses cookies": TODO
Add a timer to do the clean: TODO
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.