Bug#809721: iceweasel: cookie permission overrides no longer apply to webappsstore?

[RjY]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 43.0.2-1
Severity: normal

Summary: please restore the ability to allow whitelisted sites to write
to webappsstore.sqlite without having to accept all cookies permanently.

In Preferences/privacy I have cookies set to accept, but keep only until
Iceweasel closes. Then, I have a few sites which have overrides to allow
cookies to remain until they expire. (That is, in PageInfo/permissions,
the setting is changed from the default "Allow for session" to "Allow").

In previous Iceweasel versions in Sid (38esr etc.) the permissions
override for these sites also applied to webappsstore (localStorage).
The whitelisted sites were able to store data in webappsstore.sqlite,
and their settings were preserved across Iceweasel restarts.

Since Iceweasel 43 went into sid, this seems to no longer be the case:
even sites which have an "allow cookies" override are seemingly not able
to update their data stored in webappsstore.sqlite. Changes are only
kept per-session, and discarded on quit.

Now, for sites to be able to update their data in webappsstore.sqlite, I
seem to have to go back into Preferences and set all cookies to remain
until they expire, which is undesirable as it means any and all cookies
and webappsstore data, regardless of origin, hangs around forever.

Can this be fixed, or is it an intentional change?

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