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Bug#831820: ITP: xul-ext-self-destructing-cookies -- addon to delete cookies and LocalStorage after tabs using them have been closed



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

* Package name    : xul-ext-self-destructing-cookies
  Version         : 0.4.10
  Upstream Author : Ove <sdc@elektro-eel.org>
* URL             : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : addon to delete cookies and LocalStorage after tabs using them have been closed

With this addon installed, Firefox will delete cookies and LocalStorage
when there are no longer any open tabs using those cookies or
LocalStorage entries.  Sites whose cookies or LocalStorage you want to
keep may be whitelisted.

As upstream puts it, this addon implements a new cookie policy.  It's
like Firefox's built in capacity to delete all cookies when the browser
is closed, except that it acts even sooner to remove cookies that might
be used to track the user in undesirable ways.  It provides a layer of
privacy protection for those of us who care about lingering cookies but
don't want to regularly restart our browsers.

I intend to maintain this package as part of the pkg-mozext team.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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