375461 - Cookie confirmation sheet should not switch tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 302596

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[wtallis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070325 Camino/1.1b+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070325 Camino/1.1b+

I have Camino set to "Ask me before accepting each cookie." If I middle click a link to a page that wants to set a cookie, the window will switch to the new tab and present me with the confirmation sheet. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Camino to "Ask me before accepting each cookie" in the Privacy settings
2. Open (in a new tab in the background) a site that wants to set a cookie, but for which no rule exists. 
Actual Results:  
The browser window switches to the new tab and presents a confirmation sheet, originating from between the window title bar and the address bar.

Expected Results:  
No sheet should be presented until the user selects the tab containing the page trying to set the cookie. At that point the sheet should be presented originating from the bottom of the tab bar, so that it only overlaps the page in question. If possible, the user should be able to switch to a different tab and continue browsing without responding to the sheet. 

The requested change would fix a major annoyance for those who use tabbed browsing and set manual cookie policies. It might present an issue for pages that do not finish loading until all cookie decisions have been made. Those pages might time out while loading. 

There may be problems if the user opens several pages from the same domain, all wanting to set cookies. Because the user may set a "deny all" or "allow all" rule in one of the pages' sheets, the cookie rules should be rechecked when a tab waiting for cookie confirmation is activated.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Please search before filing bugs.  Thanks!