Firefox:3.0 Options Dialog reorg

Cookie Exceptions

When a users selects accept cookies from sites + Keep until: ask me every time, they may accumulate a long list of Exceptions.

Many web sites are identifiable by their second-level domain (e.g., google.com) but set multiple cookies from different third-level domains (e.g., www.google.com, mail.google.com, groups.google.com, etc.).

In its present form, the Cookie Exceptions dialog can only be ordered by full site name (i.e., third-level domain for most cookies). This makes it difficult to find (and edit) all the cookie exceptions from a single orignating site (e.g., when the user changes their mind and decides they would like the site to remember them from visit to visit).

Two suggestions:
1) By default (and when user click on the column header Site), order cookies by top-level domain, then second-level domain, then third-level domain, etc. When a user clicks on the column header Status, subgroup cookies for each status by Site as above.
2) Allow users to perform simple searches on the cookie list (at least site name).

In combination, these two changes should allow for efficient browsing and searching of long lists of cookie exceptions. --KDezfulian 19:21, 14 October 2006 (PDT)