291154 - Keep Cookies Until I close Firefox setting no longer working in Firefox 1.0.3

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Russ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > Allow sites to set cookies > Keep Cookies:
> Until I close Firefox setting has no longer works in Firefox 1.0.3.  Cookies
are not removed when Firefox is closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > Clear to clear cookies.
2. Set preference Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > Allow sites to set
cookies > Keep Cookies: > Until I close Firefox.
3. Surf web page of your liking
4. Close Firefox
5. Inspect cookies under Set Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies > View Cookies.
Actual Results:  
Cookies were not removed.

Expected Results:  
Cookies should be removed.

Comment 1

[Brian]

It works for me - Windows 2000 Firefox 1.0.3

Make sure that you're not mistaking the cookies for the cookies that load on
your homepage.

If your homepage is google, then google cookies are going to be there when you
check because it already loaded.

However, I went to other sites, lycos, hotbot, got a ton of cookies, closed and
reopened to default google homepage, and only google's were there.

It works fine for me - I don't see a problem.

Comment 2

[Russ]

*** Bug 291156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

related to bug 290922 ?

Comment 4

[Russ]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It works for me - Windows 2000 Firefox 1.0.3
> 
> Make sure that you're not mistaking the cookies for the cookies that load on
> your homepage.
> 
> If your homepage is google, then google cookies are going to be there when you
> check because it already loaded.
> 
> However, I went to other sites, lycos, hotbot, got a ton of cookies, closed and
> reopened to default google homepage, and only google's were there.
> 
> It works fine for me - I don't see a problem.

Nope, these are cookies across sessions.  I can reproduce this on four separate
installations of Firefox.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[sworddragon2]

I have encountered such a bug too on Firefox 28.0 and wanted to open a new bugreport but I have seen that there are already many of them. So I have decided to post in the earliest that matches the problem. Here are my steps to reproduce:

1. Delete your cookies.
2. In Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> History:
 - Set "Firefox will:" to "Use custom settings for history".
 - Enable "Accept cookies from sites".
 - Set "Keep until:" to "they expire".
3. Open any site that sets a cookie.
4. Now change in Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy -> History "Keep until:" to "I close Firefox".
5. Close Firefox and open it again.
6. Look at your cookies.

The cookies will now still be there. It seems all cookies that were set before changing this option will not be affected by it.