478539 - Whitelist Cookies cleared after restart of FF 3.0.6

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Eugen Ostrowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

I observed that cookies vanished although they are mentioned in a whitelist. The cleared cookies are on the whitelist since FF2 and there were no trouble until the last FF update to 3.0.6.
Reguarly I order FF to clear all cookies except the cookies on the whitelist.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the above example (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/advchart/frames/frames.asp?symb=LNUX) change the timeframe to 5 years
2. Store chart settings and confirm with ok
3. You can see the new cookie in cookies sqlite
4. Make "bigcharts.marketwatch.com" and "marketwatch.com" whitelist members
5. Make a copy of cookies.sqlite

When the cookies disappeared I restored the cookies.sqlite file and all seems ok for a few new starts (maybe 3-5) of FF. Then the cookies got lost again. 
Actual Results:  
The cookies vanished after a few starts, means the timeframe of the showed chart shrinks to one year again.

Expected Results:  
There should be no change, means the timeframe of the chart should be 5 years as long as the cookie is on the whitelist.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This can't be reproduced by me and others.
Do you use security/privacy software on your system like Spybot, CCleaner or a privacy function in your firewall ?

Comment 2

[Eugen Ostrowski]

No there is no change in my system but the FF update. No Cleaner or something else is running on my system. 

I think it is only a problem if other users confirm the bug, else it is my problem only.

I look to track down the reason and notify later.

Comment 3

[Eugen Ostrowski]

OK, got the culprit. It was the Tor Button 1.2.0 add-on I installed by coincidence. I couldn't determine why the cookies vanish sometimes at startup of FF and sometimes stay. But I can tell definitely that there are certain routines in the add-on to manage cookies and the misbehaviour of FF stops after deactivation of the Tor Button add-on.

I apologize for claiming a bug in FF.

But I suggest to strongly recommend a FF test without any add-ons before reporting a bug. I wasn't aware and may be others also.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We usually suggest to use http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode before reporting bugs :-)
I would suggested it after your comment #2...