Firefox 3.6 x86_64 problem

[Jim Byrnes]

NoOp wrote:
> 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?

ppa.launchpad.net/main

> 
>> 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
> 

OK, I've read that before when working with profiles on my other 
platform. I was just using profiles to try to troubleshoot my problem.

Regards,  Jim