This is not related to cookies but to the permission manager. In a nutshell, the changes we did for the permission manager this summer broke the hack that was allowing files to have permissions. At load time, the permission manager is trying to find the principal for "http://scheme:file"; which, hum, isn't really working.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082446 Title: Firefox 17.0 ignores cookie exceptions Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: In Progress Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 $ apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 Candidate: 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 Version table: *** 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 0 500 http://mirror.umd.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://mirror.umd.edu/ubuntu/ quantal-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirror.umd.edu/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages Expected behavior: Firefox should remember the cookie exceptions I've set in versions of Firefox prior to 17.0. It should also store changes I make to exceptions. Actual behavior: Firefox ignore cookie exceptions. It also no longer records them. Workaround: Most users will want to stay on 16.0 until Mozilla fixes this bug. The thread referred to below contains workarounds that require dumping and manipulating an sqlite database. See a discussion of the bug: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2621009&sid=cc80c10c48eb87f53a76306af86fdaf7 The bug report over at mozilla.org: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814554 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1082446/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
