can I fine tune accepting third-party cookies
I read some previous posts about third-party cookies, but don't see an answer that I'm hoping for. Currently, my settings are to accept cookies from sites. ACCEPT THIRD-PARTY COOKIES is = Never. I have an important site that logs me out if I click in certain places. They said it's because of the third-party setting. In Firefox settings, I don't see anything next to third-party cookies where I can make an exception. But, there IS an Exceptions above it, right by "Accept Cookies from Sites". So I entered the general website name: xyz.com (xyz not real name). It didn't work. I closed browser so history would delete, and then tried again using the global asterisk: *xyz.com and that didn't work. I want to use the * because this site's URL's changes in places.
BTW: I do not want to allow third-party cookies from "VISITED: sites. Please advise if I'm doing the * thing wrong, as I'm not that knowledgeable about it. And, can my intention even be achieved? Maybe there is no solution. I urge Firefox to add allow third-party cookie exceptions.
(Also: I wonder if I wrote about this before, but didn't see it. Do posts get deleted after a certain period of time?)
thank you pizazz
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cor-el, too complicated for me to follow. i'll wait for the day FF improves it, but won't hold my breath!
thank you pizazz
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If you aren't sure for what domains you need an allow exception then you can temporarily enable all cookies including third-party cookies to see what cookies are created.
Note that you need to specify the protocol (http:// or https://) in a allow or block exception and include the full domain like https://support.mozilla.org for this website.
cor-el, in order to do that, I ended up having to allow third-party cookies "always", as it didn't work with just "visited". when I logged in and found the one place I knew was a problem, it showed cookies for 4 different URLs. And since it's a big site, I know there are more problem area. Firefox should not make me enter each and every possible URL as an exception. It should allow the global "*" to handle all variations.
Firefox, please allow EXCEPTIONS to third-party cookies. And, allow the * to do a global exception for the entire website.
I only enable third-party temporarily to check what exceptions I have to create if I suspect a third-party cookie issue when someone posts a question about content getting blocked that seems to be in an (i)frame. It is sometimes tricky to get the correct domain via the Inspector. Once you have created the "Allow" exception(s) you can disable third-party cookies to test the exception(s) and delete existing cookies and reload the page to check if it works.
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cor-el, too complicated for me to follow. i'll wait for the day FF improves it, but won't hold my breath!
thank you pizazz
If you aren't happy with the default cookie setting in Firefox then you can try to find an extension that makes it easier to manage the cookies or you have to do extra effort to create third-party cookie exceptions.
cor-el I seldom take add-ons, extensions, etc. I hope FF will make it easier for us.
thank you pizazz