206809 - unable to install

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[richard von wittkamp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

receive message saying need plug-in.  go to macromedia/shockwave and here is the
message i get:

 "You may not have everything you need to view certain sections of
macromedia.com. To address issues with your browser or media preferences see below:
Enable cookies

Your browser options are currently set to disable cookies. To use certain areas
of macromedia.com, you must enable cookies. Consult your browser's Help section
for information on how to change this setting."

I have checkec and re-checked preferences and determined/confirmred settings are
on "enable all cookes."  

Any thoughts on how I solve this problem?  Thanks;

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log onto macromedia/shockewave site and try to download plug-in
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
keep looping to page that says my cookies are disabled.

Expected Results:  
should show "download button" but doesn't.  nothing there.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Cookies 

And you are sure that you don't unchecked "read cookies" in
edit\preferences\Advanced\Script&Plugins ?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

As Matti suggests, please check your javascript cookie prefs.

if that looks ok, please generate a cookie log for the site, so we can see
what's going wrong - instructions for windows can be found at:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193951#c1

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

no response in over a year, resolving WORKSFORME

Comment 4

[benc]

V/wfm.