Bug#533272: epiphany-browser: Separate important cookies from the junk ones

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.26.1-1
Severity: wishlist


It would be good if epiphany had a way to keep cookies that
you really care about separate from the usual collection of
trash cookies that one collects while surfing.  That way,
you could have a separate expiration policy (trash expires
in 24 hours, *my* cookies never expire).    Or, if you clear
private data, it wouldn't clear your important cookies.

Why?   Because cookies can represent subscriptions and
logins.   They can represent money you have paid to access
a web site.    They can represent the effort you spent to
rummage under your keyboard to find the password for a site :).
You don't want to throw that kind of stuff
away, at least not without explicit manual confirmation.

On the other hand, most (99%) of cookies are either
(a) advertising/tracking cookies which have no value to
the user, or (b) represent the current state of one's progress
through a website (which rarely has value beyond a day).

The world has given us two types of cookies, so the browser
should help us handle each group appropriately.

I would suggest this:
*If a cookie is in the "important" class, it will *only* be accepted
on positive manual confirmation.   So, a website would (somehow)
ask that certain cookies be given the manual treatment.
*Then, these cookies would have a separate expiration policy and
would not be affected by the default "clear private data" operation.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  epiphany-gecko                2.26.1-1   Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck

epiphany-browser recommends no packages.

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

Versions of packages epiphany-gecko depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  epiphany-browser-data       2.26.1-1     Data files for the GNOME web brows
ii  gnome-icon-theme            2.26.0-1     GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  iso-codes                   3.10-1       ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libavahi-client3            0.6.25-1     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.25-1     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-gobject0           0.6.25-1     Avahi GObject library
ii  libc6                       2.9-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcanberra-gtk0            0.12-1       Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0                0.12-1       a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.80-4       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.4.2-3.3    a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.4.0-5    GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.26.2-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.4-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.1-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.26.0-1     The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.24.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.16.1-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.5-1      sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d                 4.7.4-3      NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.24.0-3+b1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.0-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.1-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.24-2     XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  python2.5                   2.5.4-1      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xulrunner-1.9               1.9.0.7-1    XUL + XPCOM application runner
ii  xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 1.9.0.7-1    Support for GNOME in xulrunner app

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