1119183 - hangs if more than 77 "Confirm setting cookie" windows are open

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tamás FENYVESI]

Attachment: cookie.html - for reproducing the bug

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141127111021

Steps to reproduce:

I created a test page to examine the behaviour of popsci.com articles. They store the scroll position in a cookie. 
So visit http://users.itk.ppke.hu/~fenta/vajon/cookie.html
Scroll up and down, and watch the counter. 


Actual results:

After 77 scroll events (bound to set cookie), no more "Confirm setting cookie" window opens. After about 130-140 scroll events, all firefox windows disappear, but the process is running. If I run it from console, it doesn't let me know what had happened.


Expected results:

I expected that firefox will handle infinite "Confirm setting cookie" windows or at least infinite set cookie events. I think this would be fair for people caring cookies, since websites tend to use more and more cookies.

Comment 1

[Tamás FENYVESI]

I set the following in Preferences:
Privacy -> History: Use custom settings for history -> Accept cookies from sites: yes -> Keep until: Ask me every time
(This setting is good for web developers)

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748620#c6 .

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Didn't we remove the "Confirm setting cookie" feature?

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to Mats Palmgren (:mats) from comment #3)
> Didn't we remove the "Confirm setting cookie" feature?

bug 606655.