This bug has been around for four years....it's KILLING me. I'm having to Force Close Firefox in Mac OS X about once every two dozen websites or so. Why isn't this a more major bug and why isn't this fixed yet?
-- 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
