Firefox 3.6 x86_64 problem

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 4 23:46:56 UTC 2010


On 02/04/2010 10:22 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I'm using: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;U;Linux x86_64;en-US;rv:1.9.2)Gecko/20100123
> 	   Ubuntu/9.10(karmic)Firefox/3.6.
> 
> In preferences if I set: History->Firefox will: Use custom settings 
> for    			 history and check (x) Accept cookies from sites 			 and 
> uncheck () Accept third party cookies and 					 set Keep until: ask me 
> every time.
> 
> With this setting sites will not load. The status bar  will display 
> Loading... forever.  On other platforms including 32bit Ubuntu it will 
> show a dialog and state the site wants to set a cookie and ask if you 
> want to accept it and provide a checkbox to make this the default 
> setting for this site.

And where did you get this version?

> 
> This happened in my default profile. Since I had imported a bookmark 
> file I setup a new, clean test profile and it was the same.
> I wonder if anyone else sees this same behaviour?  I'm thinking of 
> filing a bug, but if it's just me I would want to dig a little deeper so 
> I don't waste their time.
> 
> BE WARNED if you try this and are using multiple profiles and having 
> Firefox offer you the option of which profile to use on startup the next 
> time you start Firefox it will start in whatever profile was active when 
> you shut it down. To get the multiple profiles option back I had to 
> clear the cache, shutdown Firefox and reboot Ubuntu.

I suggest you read:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles





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