229884 - Cookie settings return to 'Disable cookies'

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227612

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Gus Fantanas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210

My Mozilla 1.6b for Linux does not remember the cookie settings. I set the
cookie preferences in the Privacy and Security preference page, click OK, but
when I return to that page the cookie selection has been reset to 'Disable cookies'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Edit --> Preferences--> Privacy & Security --> Cookies
2.Select, say, 'Enable all cookies'
3.Click 'OK'
Actual Results:  
Returning to the same selection, the cookie setting shows as 'Disable cookies',
that is, Mozilla forgot the previous setting! The same happens with all other
cookie preference combinations. Tryhing to log into different sites which
require cookies (e.g. banking) confirms that the cookies are truly set to
'Disable cookies'.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have remembered the cookie preference setting.

I am running stock SuSE Linux Professional (SuSE stock 2.4.21 kernel) on an
aging Sony Vaio PCG-FX140 laptop (700 MHz PIII-M), upgraded to 512M of RAM and
30 GB hard drive.

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227612 ***