482286 - Cookie dialog does not display properly when visting cnn.com the first time

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot of cookie dialog

Seen while running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

STR:
1. Launch Private Browsing mode.
2. Go into Cookies Preferences and switch to "Ask me every time"
3. Load CNN.com
4. Observe the dialog I get the first time

After this initial load and I allow the first cookie, this dialog goes away. I have also seen this several other times during my testing, both in regular browsing mode and Private Browsing mode. It is difficult to reliably reproduce it.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Here is the Litmus test I was running when I saw this most recently: https://litmus.mozilla.org/show_test.cgi?id=7397

Comment 2

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

I *think* prefs are not saved in PB mode, I may be wrong.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

No idea if this is related but I've seen an empty security warning dialog too when opening a site with an untrusted ssl cert. When I confirmed the exception the dialog has no text in there.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Does this happen on 1.9.0.x?

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Olli, we saw those half-filled dialog boxes during our FFT testing on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. I have no idea if this also happens on the 1.9 branch. I haven't seen it with latest Shiretoko builds at all since a month.

Comment 6

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

no longer have ask me every time