441007 - Cannot block third party cookies

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 421494

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Warren Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)

The preference to "Accept cookies only from sites I visit" does not seem to be effective.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Under "Preferences/Privacy", select "Accept cookies only from sites I visit".
2. "Show Cookies ...", "Remove All ..." (to start with a clean slate).
3. Visit some trashy, ad ridden web site.  www.dilbert.com works for me.
4. "Show Cookies" again.
Actual Results:  
After visiting www.dilbert.com, I see I've also accepted cookies from ".insightexpressai.com".


Expected Results:  
I expected to receive cookies only from ".dilbert.com".

Blocking third party cookies with Firefox 3.0 on a Mac seems to work properly.

These are my cookie related prefs from "about:config"

    network.cookie.cookieBehavior   1
    network.cookie.lifetimePolicy   2
    network.cookie.prefsMigrated    true

All other "network.cookie.*" prefs are set to "default".

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm about 99% certain this is a dupe, and I'm 100% certain it isn't unique to Camino (Firefox will exhibit exactly the same issue). This should be kicked to Core if someone can't find the dupe (something about iframes and third-party cookies, I think) in a search.

Comment 2

[Warren Jones]

Perhaps older versions of Firefox would exhibit this issue.  I cannot reproduce the problem Firefox 3.0:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

Same settings, same web sites.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

You should try it in a Camino trunk nightly (using Troubleshoot Camino to prevent currently irreversible profile damage, or by moving your profile folder aside prior to running the trunk Camino build).

Comment 4

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

This WFM on the trunk, and 1.6.1 behaves identically with Firefox 2.0.0.15.  This sounds like a dupe of bug 158463 (since the advertisers are using iframes), which dwitte fixed on trunk in bug 421494.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Personally, I would have duped this to 158463 instead, but yeah, that's what I was thinking of.

Comment 6

[Warren Jones]

Yes, this seem to be fixed in the latest nightly build (2.0a1pre (1.9pre 2008061223))

Thanks for the quick response, and sorry that my initial search didn't turn up the dup.