Thrawn wrote:Still confused, though, because I'm not aware of Self-Destructing Cookies making anything sticky. If you go to Firefox Preferences - Privacy and check the 'Clear History when Firefox closes' box, that still works fine, doesn't it, even on sites with exceptions?
Well yes, the cleaning and all that still works as it should but anything whitelisted by this addon into the FX db will remain and will never be touched as it becomes "outside the scope" and untouchable. You know what I mean, otherwise you have to delete them manually. Make sense what I mean as permanent or sticky?
Plus, you would only define an exception if you didn't want cookies to self-destruct, meaning that you want them to a) get blocked entirely (no issue), b) persist only for the session (no issue again), or c) persist as long as they want (and if you want to dump everything on browser exit, then you never do this, right?).
The mechanism I have observed with this addon, and please correct me if I am wrong, is that if you don't whitelist something which makes it untouchable, it will delete it when the last tab matching it is gone, or when the timer you have set expires. So you either have to whitelist something to get it to not touch it which is too permanent for my taste, or you have to set a very long timer, which is inefficient as you cannot possibly know HOW LONG you will always need a cookie, one day it might be 8 hours before you close your browser, another it might be 3 minutes. So to beat the timer, you either have to keep opening a tab to keep it alive or whitelist it, too much all or nothing approach for me. Did I clear it up a bit?