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 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org