179825 - (Cookie_Write_To_Disk) Cookies not written to disk unless quit/close manually (reboot and crash lose persistant cookies set that session)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 165268

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter Beckman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

On several sites there is the option to "Save Identity on this computer" or
similar.  I use these often, including on MozillaZine, Slashdot, Yahoo!,
AdCritic.com, PayPal and Ebay.  However, since starting to use Phoenix, I've
noticed that after a crash, a reboot or quitting Phoenix I lose SOME cookies,
especially ones that are set to expire about 10 years from now.  I've started a
thread on mozillazine:

http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=595

Phoenix just crashed (after a bug in autocomplete, submitted), and now Yahoo!,
Ebay, and paypal do not remember me, even though I signed in and said "remember
me."  I know these work, they worked in IE.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to my.yahoo.com.
2. Log in with a valid yahoo.com account.
3. Use yahoo! personalized stuff on mail.yahoo.com, yp.yahoo.com, etc.
4. Crash phoenix, reboot your computer without quitting phoenix, quit phoenix
(this last case is as of yet untested; I will post later).
5. Start phoenix up again, go to my.yahoo.com.  You will see that you are not
logged in or remembered because the cookie that does this (and is set for
expiration in april of 2010) is gone for some reason.  Maybe long standing
cookies cannot be rewritten after the first is written?


Actual Results:  
You are no longer remembered by yahoo by your username.  Similar results occur
on Ebay, Paypal, MozillaZine.org.


Expected Results:  
Saved the cookies for future use, not lost them.  

I'm submitting it as a major feature because handling cookies properly should be
a  major feature of any browser.

Comment 1

[Peter Beckman]

I've confirmed that a crash or a reboot without quitting phoenix gives this
problem.  Quitting and restarting phoenix after logging into said sites seems to
force Phoenix to write the cookies to disk for later consumption.  A crash or a
reboot before quitting phoenix yields a loss of cookies set before the crash (it
seems).  Phoenix had crashed twice and I had rebooted without quitting phoenix a
few times before that.  I'm betting that cookies just aren't getting written to
disk (or registry or wherever) at the time they are set, which means they are
lost on a crash; on a reboot, if you don't close Phoenix manually, Windows
closes it for you, and doesn't force Phoenix to write its cookies.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165268 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Mass verifiying old duplicates.