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103: UI: Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

See original GitHub issue

Privacy & Security>Cookies and Site Data>Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

In 102 it still controls the lifetime cookie pref, and checking will trigger another migration. Currently 102 has that in deprecated

// FF102
   // 2801: delete cookies and site data on exit - replaced by sanitizeOnShutdown* (2810)
   // 0=keep until they expire (default), 2=keep until you close Firefox
   // [SETTING] Privacy & Security>Cookies and Site Data>Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
   // [-] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1681493,1681495,1681498,1759665

In 103 it changes: we need to add the UI info back into section 2800 - see 1681495

AFAICT toggling it on will set custom history and check cookies, offline web data, and cache
not sure what toggling it off does

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Created a year ago
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Thorin-Oakenpantscommented, Jul 3, 2022

The migration also takes into account if custom history was already enabled. If it wasn’t, then it clears the other items: history, forms + downloads, site exceptions, etc, so users don’t lose any data. If it was, then it leaves those other items as they were

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Thorin-Oakenpantscommented, Jul 3, 2022

oooh … https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1293#issuecomment-1016521596 has the link to the moz dev comment I mentioned about the mess with sanitizing and expectations

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1293#issuecomment-1015926977 relied on the lifetime pref

it did? well fuck, best YOU and rusty et al had better test it then 😃

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