Package: konqueror Severity: wishlist
It would be good if konqueror 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
