Bug 449402 – cookie blocking dialog isn't serialised any more

Bug 449402 - cookie blocking dialog isn't serialised any more

Summary:	cookie blocking dialog isn't serialised any more

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	firefox (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-06-02 12:16 EDT by Dave Jones
Modified:	2015-01-04 17:30 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-08-17 02:21:19 EDT
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an image of how not to block cookies. (738.18 KB, image/jpeg) 2008-06-02 12:16 EDT, Dave Jones	no flags	Details
options (45.10 KB, image/jpeg) 2008-07-30 02:37 EDT, Dave Jones	no flags	Details
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation	448438	None	None	None	Never

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Description Dave Jones 2008-06-02 12:16:28 EDT

if a site wants to set 20 cookies, firefox now pops up 20 dialogs in parallel,
making the 'use my choice for all cookies for this site' tickbox pointless,
because you now have 20 dialogs to dismiss.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2008-06-02 12:16:28 EDT

Created attachment 307385 [details]
an image of how not to block cookies.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-01 11:01:36 EDT

Could I get an exact version number of the firefox package where you can
reproduce this issue, please?

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-07-01 11:11:37 EDT

firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 11:43:45 EDT

Sorry, could I get also some URL to reproduce this? I tried Manchaster Evening
News, but I haven't persuaded my Firefox to generate all those dialogs.

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2008-07-29 11:59:12 EDT

I can't remember which url the above image was from.  I've seen it happen
recently with others. I'll add it next time it happens.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 12:21:11 EDT

Let's keep that NEEDINFO here.

Comment 7 Dave Jones 2008-07-29 21:18:37 EDT

ah, think I found a way to trigger it.
visit http://brajeshwar.com/2008/choose-linux-over-windows-vista/

when the first cookie dialog appears, hit escape.
then you'll get a bunch of dialogs all in parallel. (move the dialog window out
of the way to see the others).

Comment 8 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-30 02:21:03 EDT

That's weird -- I escaped the first one and then I just confirmed quite
reasonably looking ones (flickr and something else).

Could I get a screenshot of about:config page with filter set on "cookie" word,
please?

Thanks.

Comment 9 Dave Jones 2008-07-30 02:37:26 EDT

Created attachment 312963 [details]
options

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-30 03:44:25 EDT

The only difference I see is that I don't have at all
pref.privacy.disable_button_view_cookies. What happens when you toggle it?

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2008-08-17 02:21:19 EDT

Dave,

after couple of months living with cookie dialog switched on, I cannot than to agree that its UI is very broken. However, I am afraid, we don't have capacity to fix it ourselves I am afraid. I have found this lovely bug upstream (with reproducer which actually reproduces this for me pretty well) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448438, so I am closing this bug as UPSTREAM.

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