1006588 - New Firefox Sync depends on cookies.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 998033

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Anthony Howe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140421221237

Steps to reproduce:

1. Followed instructions to disable old Firefox sync on laptop and Android tablet.
2. On laptop proceed to "Sign In To Sync"
3. Click "Get Started" 


Actual results:

The page "about:accounts" reports:

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Cookies Required

Please enable cookies in your browser which are required by Firefox Accounts. Cookies are small pieces of data stored in your browser that provide functionality such as remembering you between sessions.

Learn more
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I "never" accept 3rd party cookies for privacy and anti-tracking; I have Keep Until set to "ask me every time".


Expected results:

Firefox should follow its own cookie rules for its own internal URLs "about:accounts" and prompt to accept cookies. 

As a work around attempted to add a cookie exception to allow cookies for internal URL "about:accounts", but the exceptions dialogue does not accept internal URL in the input field.

New Firefox Sync dependency on cookies is a bad idea, fails to account for user's existing privacy choices, and fails to support internal URLs.

Comment 1

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

thanks for logging - working on fixing this soon