Closed Bug 219587 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Image Manager incorrectly blocking thousands of sites

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(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 215461

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(Reporter: fago, Assigned: security-bugs)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917

Since switching to 1.5b I have been having images blocked from almost every site
I visit. I finally tracked down the problem: the "Image Manager" lists thousands
of sites as "cannot load images" -- yet I never specified this to be so!

I do not use "image manager" to block images from sites: I have "accept all
images" checked.

Yes, I can just remove the sites, but it takes several seconds to remove each
one (dunno why, it's just slow). Clicking on "Remove all sites" hung Mozilla for
over 45 minutes. So long that I killed it. Perhaps that is a seperate problem.

Nevertheless, something seriously odd is going on.

Reproducible: Always

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Actual Results:
Changing to correct component.
Component: Browser-General → Image Blocking
Do you use the cookie manager to block cookies?
Did you use 1.4 after you used 1.5b, and then back to 1.5b again?

Can you post the cookperm.txt file from your profile (see the release notes for
the location)

This could be bug 215461
Assignee: general → security-bugs
Attached file cookperm.txt
Yes, I do block lots of cookies, but not images. I may have used 1.4 once or
twice after switching to 1.5b -- don't remember.

I have been needing to re-block some cookies lately.

On a related matter:
Starting from a fresh ./.mozilla directory would probably be a good idea: I'm
running on the same one since Mozilla 0.92 or so, but really do not want to
loose some of my data. 

Is there an easy way to export and then re-import my password file (like one's
bookmarks)?
>Is there an easy way to export and then re-import my password file (like one's
bookmarks)?

I've used the instructions here successfully in the past:
http://burntelectrons.com/moz/moz-passwords.html
Wow, just in time too -- somehow Mozilla created a new *.s file and "lost" all
of my saved passwords! Probably when I tried a nightly build too check on this
bug...

Thanks for the tip. Perhaps this should be in the Moz docs somewhere?
You can fix the cookperm.txt by removing the lines that start with %
I imported your cookperm.txt without that lines fine in a recent nightly.
Thanks. I ended up just blowing cookperm.txt away and allowing Moz to re-build it.
anyway, buzilla isn't a helpdesk.
duping to bug 215461 which made loading cookperm.txt more robust. It is also
fixed on the 1.5 branch

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215461 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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