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On 2009-09-13T09:21:19+00:00 David Lang wrote:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090217 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090217 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14

if a site sets many cookies and you have firefox set to 'ask' each
cookie generates a seperate popup window, and even if you give an answer
that applies to all cookies from that site, you still have to repeat the
process for each cookie

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set prefrences to ask for cookie approval
2.browse to a site that sets multiple cookies (especially one with many elements in the page, each of which sets a cookie)
3. hit the checkbox to apply your decision to all cookies from that domain and select a result (approve, deny, or only for session)
Actual Results:  
many popups that must be answered individually

Expected Results:  
if you select apply to all cookies for this site, all the extra windows should go away. or you could present all the cookies for a page or site in a single popup so that they can be approved/denied individually, or all approved

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/0

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On 2009-09-13T20:52:49+00:00 David Lang wrote:

note that this is very similar to bug 516221, just with cookie approval
popups instead of auth popups

this includes the problem that these popups must be dealt with in order,
and if there are a lot of them it's not unusual for them to get out of
order so I have dozens of popups that I have to drag around to get them
out from overlapping each other, then just click all of them to find out
which one wants attention next and keep repeating the process until they
are all dealt with.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/1

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On 2009-09-13T20:54:04+00:00 David Lang wrote:

that bug was marked as s duplicate of 339804, all the same problems
reported there apply

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/2

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On 2010-06-15T07:54:57+00:00 Elusis wrote:

I am having this problem as well.  FF 3.6.3 on a MacBook with no theme
installed.  Catalogchoice.org is a site where I recently had this
happen.  Ticketfly.com is another.  I accept a cookie for a site with
"use my choice for all cookies from this site" checked and yet I get
dialog box after dialog box from the same site requesting permission to
set cookies.  Same thing happens if I deny permission to set the cookie
with "use my choice for all cookies from this site" ticked.  Some
commercial sites with a lot of ad beacons and third party cookies
require a dozen clicks or more to dismiss all the boxes coming from just
a single domain.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/3

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On 2010-09-02T01:02:51+00:00 Elusis wrote:

This problem is still ongoing for me - other problematic domains include
cnn.com, oprah.com, and many shopping sites.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/4

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On 2010-11-30T21:16:11+00:00 Realgrouchy wrote:

I thought there was an existing bug asking for an option "apply my
decision to all cookies on this page"; however, I cannot find it right
now. That would be a suitable solution to this bug.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/5

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On 2011-09-02T02:01:54+00:00 Kyle Kalstabakken wrote:

The "out of order" aspect of this mentioned in comment 1 is pretty easy
to run into on Ubuntu, as the dialogue boxes don't accurately stack on
top of each other.

Related bug in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/833952

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/comments/10


** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: firefox
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  cookie dialogues can pile up out of order, but must still be clicked
  in order

Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser:
  New
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)

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