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If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-04-21T09:37:33+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote: Created attachment 316785 screenshot of the looped dialog Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2008-04-21T09:38:34+00:00 8mabmzqcnyc1g4i-mcmthlf-clubl5mz6ldresg wrote: Created attachment 316787 cookie prefs settings Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2010-10-07T11:15:29+00:00 Timeless-bemail wrote: *** Bug 597325 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-02-04T19:38:18+00:00 Dchubrick wrote: Created attachment 509834 Cookie Prompt Stuck - Seperation and #ing of boxes Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-06-28T07:54:46+00:00 Nico R. wrote: I think this bug is related to bug 515521 and/or bug 434971. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-02-13T12:48:19+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote: *** Bug 648609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-02-13T12:48:36+00:00 Bugcuddler wrote: *** Bug 726558 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-02-13T15:31:37+00:00 Bzbarsky wrote: If you want a browser that doesn't malfunction and crash, yes. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/38 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium -- 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/833952 Title: cookie dialogues can pile up out of order, but must still be clicked in order Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Firefox with a new profile 2. Set cookies to 'Keep until: "ask me every time" 3. Go to http://community.htc.com 4. Click "Deny" for each request that pops up. Go slow enough that you can see if multiple dialogue boxes pile up. 5. The boxes don't always appear in the same location. When you can see part of a dialogue box behind your current one without dragging it away, click on it. 6. Continue clicking "Deny" in the boxes that are presented to you. Expected result: Each cookie is denied in turn. Actual result: At some point, you reach a dialogue box where it will not respond. You then need to go back to the one that you skipped (in step 5) and deny that request before you can move on. This can be difficult to find if a lot of requests build up. This seems pretty contrived, but when you are quickly trying to click through a lot of requests, it can happen unintentionally and without notice. It might not happen every single time - the changing display location of the boxes seems (to me) to be random, so sometimes you might just get "lucky" and not run into any issues. On this particular site (community.htc.com), the cookie requests seem to be infinite if you don't click "Use my choice for all cookies from this site", so you have plenty of chances to see the problem. Original report: If I have the cookies setting "ask me everytime" (Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Accept cookies from sites->Keep until: ask me every time) and I go to a site that sets a bunch of cookies the dialogs to accept/reject the cookies pile up quickly. This in and of itself is a bug as most of the time each dialog asks the exact same question. But the bigger problem is that these dialog boxes must be clicked on *in a particular order* and they get out of order. So I'm stuck with maybe 30 dialog boxes that are all piled up on each other. I have to move them around in order to find the correct one to click on and most of the time give up and kill the browser - which has to be done from the command line since the window kill button must be disabled because of the dialog boxes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: firefox 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 25 11:11:17 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 6.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.4ubuntu0.11.04.1 adobe-flashplugin N/A icedtea-plugin N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (116 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/+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
