Closed Bug 185841 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Cookies not saved on browser exit

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: Bugzilla-alanjstrBugs, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216 Phoenix/0.5

Someone mentioned that this may be related to the fix for bug 175320 but this is
broken in Phoenix, not Mozilla.  

When exiting Phoenix, cookies are not written out to cookies.txt.  

See also http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2885



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Log in to Yahoo Mail telling it to remember your username for next time
2.  Close the browser
3.  Go back to Yahoo Mail

Actual Results:  
username and password not remembered

Expected Results:  
cookies.txt updated (or created if not existing)
Severity: critical → major
Also reported on Linux.  First sighting was 12/14.
OS: Windows 2000 → All
*** Bug 186187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i figured i might as well vote!  :)  as soon as any of the devs take a break
(hehe) from the holidays, this would be my #1 requested fix.  it's kept me from
installing the newer nightlies, which kinda sucks.  :/  i like having current
versions; they're so fun to try to mess up!  :D
IMO this is not a Major bug but at the very least a Critical! (loss of data)

In fact I think it's a Blocker (Blocks testing work by beeing a general PITA)
that absolutely MUST be fixed for 0.6 Milestone.
I went back to Phoenix 0.5 because of this bug. Of course now I have the memory
leak problem to deal with. I won't be testing any new versions unless this problem
is fixed. Was this problem fixed in Mozilla? Would it be possible to back out
the offending merge and then rebuild on Windows?

Maybe I should try a build one of these days if the development environment isn't
too big.
Blake's checkin on 12/24/2002 21:10 fixed this for me, can someone verify?
I will try this out at the office this afternoon. I'm living with the memory
leak problem for now as the cookie bug is worse than the memory leak at the
moment. I hope this is fixed [and other bad bugs aren't introduced] as I've
been looking for something stable and reliable for a while now.
Seems to be fixed by Blake's checkin at 12/24/2002 21:10

Now WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021225
Phoenix/0.5
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I installed this with my old 0.5 profile, fired it up, checked my cookies and
they were there. Shut Phoenix down and then fired it up again and the cookies
were still there. So it looks like the problem with the file getting wiped out
is fixed.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021225 Phoenix/0.5
WFM too
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021225 Phoenix/0.5
i saw on the forums that this was fixed in the 12-25 nightly, so i immediately
dled it, and sure enough...  whoever took the time out of their christmas
vacation to fix this, you have my deepest gratitude.  thank you so much.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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