Proposal: add cookies.removeAll() method.md #690
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| >An empty details object will result in all cookies being removed. |
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I'd like some input on this. My thought was to keep the behavior the same between cookies.getAll and this implementation but it might make sense to block it or direct developers to use the already existing browserData API
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Open to thoughts, but I'd prefer to make this an error. As you mentioned, there is already the browsingData API for this, and even just during development it would be frustrating to accidentally clear all cookies. This would also allow us to match the CookieDetails object from the remove() API where name and url are currently required.
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Open to thoughts, but I'd prefer to make this an error. As you mentioned, there is already the browsingData API for this, and even just during development it would be frustrating to accidentally clear all cookies. This would also allow us to match the CookieDetails object from the remove() API where name and url are currently required.
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| The API will remove all cookies that match the `details` object parameter with the exception of the cases outlined in the implementation details. | ||
| If the extension does not have [host permissions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/permissions#host_permissions) for this URL, the API call will fail. |
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If we allow calling this API without a url (see below) we should add a note here about the behavior if you only have some host permissions. Presumably, we would just remove the cookies for the sites you have access to.
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Proposal introducing a new API cookies.removeAll()