235562 - checkboxes below "enable cookies" should stay checked when grayed out

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Paul Grayson]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

I change the setting of the "enable cookies" checkbox very often in order to
view sites that require cookies.  Firebird currently resets the three dependent
checkboxes  every single time I do this.  Graying out the boxes should be
sufficient to indicate to the user that those options are not in effect - there
is no need to reset his choices as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. check "enable cookies", "ask before accepting"
2. uncheck "enable cookies"
3. re-check "enable cookies"

Actual Results:  
"ask before accepting" was no longer checked.

Expected Results:  
"ask before accepting" should have remained checked.

Comment 1

[Paul Grayson]

Just noticed this is basically the same as bug 226068.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

yeah, int prefs + checkboxes mean comprimises

blake, what's up with the cookies pref panel design?  ping me on IRC tonight if
you want me to take it/have questions on the new prefs

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 236016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Paul Grayson]

In 0.9 the behavior changed a little.  Looks like someone was trying to improve
it.  Now only the "for the originating website only" box gets erased.  Please
fix that too!

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

The only "real" way to fix that without altering the design to is add a
psuedo-pref to track the checked state, which is an ugly hack and unnecessary.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change