231500 - changes to cookie preferences are not saved

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227612

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[JP]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

My Mozilla has lost it's ability to change cookie preferences.  It's currently
set to disable all cookies but when I go into edit->preferences and change the
settings to anything else the changes are not saved.   Note that I appear to be
able to change any other preferences (at least the other ones I've tried).  Note
this isn't user error - I've changed cookie preferences just under a million
times. ;-)

I suspect the file saving the cookie preferences has just become corrupt.  I've
had an frequent problem where mozilla crashes on startup (while the splash
screen is displayed) that I haven't reported because it is intermittent and I
can't reproduce it on demand.  I suspect the start crash some how cause the
cookies preferences to get screwed up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto edit->preferences-> privacy and security->cookies
2. select anything other than disable cookies
3. click "OK"
4. go back to edit->preferences-> privacy and security->cookies
5. the changes have NOT been saved

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed on trunk and in 1.6; please upgrade.  ;)

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