Bug#692106: No option to warn before storing cookies

Mark Hobley markhobley at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Nov 2 09:25:51 UTC 2012


Package: iceweasel
Version: 16.0.1-1
Severity: normal

The iceweasel browser has no option to warn before storing cookies.

Menu, Edit, Preferences, Privacy, 
Pulldown: Iceweasel will: Use custom settings for history,
tickbox: Accept cookies from sites: ticked

There should be a "Ask for confirmation whenever a cookie is sent or received"
tickbox here.


-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information

-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   4.0.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
di  fontconfig                    2.9.0-7    generic font configuration library
ii  libc6                         2.13-24    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.6.0-14 GCC support library
di  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0            2.23.3-3   GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.33.8-1   GLib library of C routines
di  libgtk2.0-0                   2.24.4-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnspr4                      2:4.9.2-1  NetScape Portable Runtime Library
di  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.6-1    NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libsqlite3-0                  3.7.13-1   SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.6.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
di  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system utilities
di  xulrunner-16.0                16.0.1-1   XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>            (no description available)
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
pn  mozplugger             <none>            (no description available)

Versions of packages xulrunner-16.0 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0             2.2.0-2          ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.6-4          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.13-24          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
pn  libcairo2               <none>           (no description available)
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.6.4-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.100-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-2.0-5          2.0.19-stable-3  Asynchronous event notification li
di  libfontconfig1          2.9.0-7          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.9-1          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-14       GCC support library
di  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.23.3-3         GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.33.8-1         GLib library of C routines
di  libgtk2.0-0             2.24.4-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0       1.3.2-4          spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg8                8c-2             Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runt
ii  libmozjs16d             16.0.1-1         Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript li
di  libnotify4              0.7.4-1          sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4                2:4.9.2-1        NetScape Portable Runtime Library
di  libnspr4-0d             4.8.6-1          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3                 2:3.13.5-1       Network Security Service libraries
ii  libnss3-1d              2:3.13.5-1       Network Security Service libraries
ii  liboss4-salsa-asound2 [ 4.2-build2006-2  OSS to Alsa compatibility library 
di  libpango1.0-0           1.28.3-6         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0           0.21.6-2         pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.7.13-1         SQLite 3 shared library
di  libstartup-notification 0.10-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-3          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx1                 1.0.0-1          VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6                2:1.5.0-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.7-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
di  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js changed [not included]

-- no debconf information



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