[Bug 833952] Re: cookie dialogues can pile up out of order, but must still be clicked in order
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On 2008-04-21T09:35:19+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
With preferences set to "accept cookies" / "always ask", certain sites
produce an infinite loop of cookie permission dialogs, despite having
"remember this decision" checked (note: i'm running firefox in german,
so the exact text / gadget labels might be different in english
firefox).
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Flush cookies (Delete private data)
2. Set prefs to "accept cookies" / "always ask"
3. Clear the list of cookie exceptions in the preferences (remove all sites)
4. Quit and restart firefox
5. Go straight to http://www.nabble.com/SuperCollider-f2891.html
Actual Results:
The cookie permission requester dialog pops up (see first attached screenshot). Independant of the choices, even when "remember decision" is checked, the dialog pops up again and again. After some dozen repetitions, a distorted dialog pops up (see second attached screenshot) that doesn't respond at all. Need to force-quit firefox, but problem reoccurs upon next start, sometimes disappears when accessing the site differently (e.g. as a link from google results).
Expected Results:
Firefox should store my cookie preferences for that site and the dialog should not pop up again if "remember decision" is checked.
Mac OS 10.4.11, German, Intel Core Duo
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On 2008-04-21T09:37:33+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote:
Created attachment 316785
screenshot of the looped dialog
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On 2008-04-21T09:38:05+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote:
Created attachment 316786
Distorted dialog after some dozen repeats of the normal dialog
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On 2008-04-21T09:38:34+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote:
Created attachment 316787
cookie prefs settings
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On 2008-06-04T00:00:07+00:00 Uliss wrote:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9)
Gecko/2008052903 Firefox/3.0
Confirmed on this build exactly as indicated
Sometimes you can get 3 or more of the cookie permission requester dialog pop ups to occur even though you click the remember box and click the allow button
- confirm that the "nabble" web site is allowed by the following steps - Firefox -> Preferences -> privacy tab -> click show cookies button - observe nabble web site in the window
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On 2009-08-22T19:46:07+00:00 Markus Fischer wrote:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2)
Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Confirmed exactly as indicated, too.
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On 2010-09-23T20:49:57+00:00 Dchubrick wrote:
This bug is still around in Pre7:
Here's my crash report: 126b16ad-379a-4175-af14-bd6622100912
(saw a bug report somewhere off of this but can't find it, but someone
also reported same issue at same site: Bug 597325
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On 2010-10-07T11:15:29+00:00 Timeless-bemail wrote:
*** Bug 597325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2011-02-04T07:35:42+00:00 Markus Fischer wrote:
I haven't seen this problem since FF4 betas. However nabble.com (link
from Comment #1) has changed (I think), so maybe that's also a cause. I
can't say.
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On 2011-02-04T19:38:18+00:00 Dchubrick wrote:
Created attachment 509834
Cookie Prompt Stuck - Seperation and #ing of boxes
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On 2011-02-04T19:52:05+00:00 Dchubrick wrote:
I haven't had any crashes although I've been mostly been using my
regular profile as of late so things are already set so unless I go
someplace new...
However, I switched to my beta testing profile to see if I could find a
site to try and crash the browser.
I didn't have any luck with the catalog site or oprah.com.
However, and I don't know if I should file a separate bug or keep it
here.
When you get a multitude of popup boxes for the cookies. It will appear
you are stuck and you can't clear them anymore. I finally investigated
it today and findings were a little funny. I knew that you had to clear
what appears to be older popup boxes (were under the box that you were
stuck on). I thought it had to be for the same domain to clear it. It
wasn't.
I tested at cnn.com. I uploaded a screenshot of the cookie prompt boxes
from where it got 'stuck' when I was clearing them out. See 'Cookie
Prompt Stuck'
#1 is the prompt I was stuck at that refused to clear out no matter what
button I pressed or trying to close it. It just stayed there. Each
subsequent box underneath is numbered sequentially (2,3...).
At #4 or #6 was when I was able to clear out #1. I initially thought I
had to clear out previous boxes with the same domain, but 4 and 6 are
ads.cnn.com as you can see. After clearing #2 and #3, I still was NOT
able to get rid of that box. Because I thought it was an issue with the
domain name as noted, I didn't check beyond that till I hit #5.
Note, I wasn't sure how many boxes I had so I was playing around with
laying them out to #4 and #6 might be reversed.
Needless to say, it is rather odd behavior. I'm not a developer, but I
really think Mozilla should rethink the way cookies are handled. The
end-user shouldn't have to sacrifice sanity for privacy handling. It's a
big turn-off.
One other annoying thing, and this might be a separate bug is that some
sites while trying to send the cookies think cookies are off and tell
you that you need your cookies are on. Bestbuy.com USE TO require
cookies to browse their site. I don't have another site offhand for
testing purposes of this.
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On 2011-02-06T03:43:03+00:00 Elusis wrote:
It's funny, I hadn't had this happen in months, then I got this update,
and literally 12 hours later this issue took my whole browser down. I
was trying to get a connection going at a Hyatt hotel, which redirects
any queries to their provider in order to charge you fees before setting
a cookie to allow you through. Their provider site originally crashed
me with this "infinitely spawning cookies" problem -
gateway.eagle_shs.com.
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On 2011-06-28T07:54:46+00:00 Nico R. wrote:
I think this bug is related to bug 515521 and/or bug 434971.
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On 2011-10-23T15:12:37+00:00 Gerardo Lisboa wrote:
Still happening on *all* platforms.
Verified also on:
Name: Firefox
Version: 7.0.1
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
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On 2011-12-03T03:17:36+00:00 Elusis wrote:
I'm at 8.0.1 for Mac and this is still going on. I'm stunned.
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On 2012-02-13T12:47:13+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote:
Reproduced:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120212 Firefox/13.0a1
New test URL: http://www.masterfile.com/stock-
photography/search/Greg+Stott
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On 2012-02-13T12:48:19+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote:
*** Bug 648609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2012-02-13T12:48:36+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote:
*** Bug 726558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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On 2012-02-13T12:51:07+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote:
This bug should be moved the an appropriate product / component since
it's kinda invisible in Firefox / General.
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On 2012-02-13T14:24:43+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote:
This is a Firefox bug. The "always ask" setting is not supported; the
bug is that Firefox allows it to be set in the first place.
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On 2012-02-13T14:47:25+00:00 Zombi wrote:
The bug is to always show one dialog at most, and if 'remember decision'
is checked, then re-evaluate, that it is appropriate to ask the same
question again.
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On 2012-02-13T15:12:48+00:00 Markus Fischer wrote:
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #19)
> This is a Firefox bug. The "always ask" setting is not supported; the bug
> is that Firefox allows it to be set in the first place.
Does this suggest to remove this feature completely?
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On 2012-02-13T15:31:37+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote:
If you want a browser that doesn't malfunction and crash, yes.
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On 2012-02-13T15:37:44+00:00 Zombi wrote:
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #22)
> If you want a browser that doesn't malfunction and crash, yes.
Better: the whole networking code should be removed, so we wont get any
cookies over the network
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On 2012-02-13T17:57:31+00:00 Markus Fischer wrote:
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #22)
> If you want a browser that doesn't malfunction and crash, yes.
Thanks for clarification. It's interesting, because this very feature is
one of *the* reason for me to use FF (and this since 1.0 came out): it's
one of the few things really giving me the sense of being in control and
allowing me decide in time, what gets stored and what not.
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** Changed in: firefox
Status: Unknown => Confirmed
** Changed in: firefox
Importance: Unknown => Medium
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