timeout for temporary permissions

[fche]

It would be handy for temporary permissions to have an implied timeout, so they were revoked after a certain amount of time (I'd use a couple of minutes), rather than browser restart (which may be days away).

[Thrawn]

I think that this would give you a false sense of security. If the site is going to attack you, then it will happen in seconds (or milliseconds), not minutes. You should never give any permissions to a site that you don't trust.

As I understand it, the idea of temporary permissions is so that you can experiment to see what a site actually needs, then easily revoke everything else when you've worked it out. But that's assuming that the surplus scripts are simply wasting your time and bandwidth to track you. If you think that they might actually try to compromise your machine, then run the other way.

[sfchris]

Hello,

I would like to request this feature also. Since I started using NoScript years ago, I have always wanted this.

Sometimes I just need a site to work, scripts be damned - but then I forget to revoke when I am done. I leave the browser open for days without closing.

This allows facebook and other nasty scripts to run until I remember to revoke. I would love to have a timeout I can set to say, 5 minutes.

Thank you.

[Thrawn]

The points that I made above have not changed. When you say that Facebook is "nasty", I presume you're talking about tracking, not actually planting malware on your machine.

You may be interested in the Self Destructing Cookies addon, which will clear cookies as soon as you close the tabs that they're associated with (but will also respect the built-in cookie exceptions in Firefox). That should go a long way toward keeping tracking temporary.

[therube]

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