Bug 449402 - cookie blocking dialog isn't serialised any more
Summary: cookie blocking dialog isn't serialised any more
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: 2Bupstreamed
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-02 16:16 UTC by Dave Jones
Modified: 2018-04-11 19:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-08-17 06:21:19 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
an image of how not to block cookies. (738.18 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-06-02 16:16 UTC, Dave Jones
no flags Details
options (45.10 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-07-30 06:37 UTC, Dave Jones
no flags Details


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 448438 0 None None None Never

Description Dave Jones 2008-06-02 16:16:28 UTC
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 16:16:28 UTC
Created attachment 307385 [details]
an image of how not to block cookies.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-01 15:01:36 UTC
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 15:11:37 UTC
firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-29 15:43:45 UTC
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 15:59:12 UTC
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 16:21:11 UTC
Let's keep that NEEDINFO here.

Comment 7 Dave Jones 2008-07-30 01:18:37 UTC
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 06:21:03 UTC
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 06:37:26 UTC
Created attachment 312963 [details]
options

Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-30 07:44:25 UTC
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 06:21:19 UTC
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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