Closed
Bug 509531
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
Logged out of web sites frequently; sometimes told I don't have cookies enabled
Categories
(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: mobill.g, Unassigned)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
I don't consider this a broken web page, it is far too common. Many sites show the same or very similar response to a normal logon operation. The most notable exceptions are banking sites. They all seem to work as do some others but Netflix, Watchersweb, Amazon and many others either fail or exhibit erratic behaviour such as requiring multiple logons or forgetting my logon from one page to another.
This has been happening since Firefox 3.0.x and continues today at Firefox 3.5.2. BTW, my cookies ARE enabled and always have been. Likewise with javascript but many sites that drive their UI buttons and such with javascript fail to respond to clicks; not even a blink.
My feeling is that there is some kind of communication failure between the site and Firefox unique to my system. I've checked my firewall, and other spyware/virus tools and found nothing out of order. BTW, the same problems occur on IE. I had IE8 but removed it due to problems (It wouldn't even run Windows Update!) which leaves me with IE7. It also has problems but I'm stuck with it so I just run tests on it. It won't allow access to internet options so I can't check its settings for cookies, etc.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Probably will happen with cookies disabled as it should.
2.
3.
Expected Results:
Proceeded normally.
The source for the Netflix page follows as an example. It's not too long.
http://www.netflix.com/entryTrap.jsp?why=cookieless
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="description" content="PDF Download is a Firefox extension that avoids you the typical problem with PDF files that freezes Firefox. No more pain! Boost your surf experience!" />
<title>PDF Download is converting your file...</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/general20.css" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="CSJSRequestObject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ClickMyButton()
{
if (document.form1.txtPosted.value == "false")
{
if(Request.QueryString("left") != "")
{
document.getElementById("leftMargin").value = Request.QueryString("left");
}
if(Request.QueryString("right") != "")
{
document.getElementById("rightMargin").value = Request.QueryString("right");
}
if(Request.QueryString("top") != "")
{
document.getElementById("topMargin").value = Request.QueryString("top");
}
if(Request.QueryString("bottom") != "")
{
document.getElementById("bottomMargin").value = Request.QueryString("bottom");
}
//document.form1.txtPosted.value = "true";
document.getElementById("txtPosted").value = "true";
var btn = document.getElementById("btnSubmit");
btn.click();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="ClickMyButton()"><br />
<form name="form1" method="post" action="Default.aspx?page=0&top=0.5&bottom=0.5&left=0.5&right=0.5&cURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.netflix.com%2fentryTrap.jsp%3fwhy%3dcookieless" id="form1">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="/wEPDwUJODQ0MTg0NjM1ZGTo0tEnFrZ6i++WqhPlpN4+Zu3Itw==" />
</div>
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="__EVENTVALIDATION" id="__EVENTVALIDATION" value="/wEWBwKvl+GUCgLCi9reAwKhmsWCDAKp69TgDAL9mvfpBgLtzfb/DALaje6nBTjWFahPKpdbuuWopREdmB6G0vEk" />
</div>
<div class="grey_header"> <img alt="PDF Download" src="../graphics/spacer.gif" width="1" height="35"> </div>
<div style="height:26px; background: url(../graphics/nitro_strip.png);"> <a href="http://www.nitropdf.com" target="_blank"><img src="../graphics/nitro_logo.png" alt="Nitro PDF Software" width="182" height="26" border="0" style="position: absolute; right: 0px;"></a> </div>
<div id="body">
<div class="column_718_left">
<a href="../index.html" target="_blank"><img src="../graphics/g_pdfdownload20_logo.jpg" alt="PDF Download 2.0 by Nitro PDF Software" width="335" height="57" border="0" align="left"></a><br clear="left">
<img src="../graphics/g_navy_line.jpg" width="694" height="1" border="0" align="left" style="margin-top:15px; "><br clear="left">
<br clear="all">
<div class="column_718_left_space">
<!-- content for users with JavaScript enabled -->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<img src=\"../graphics/g_webtopdf_loading_bar.gif\" alt=\"PDF Download is converting your file...\" width=\"675\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><br clear=\"left\">");
document.write("<br>");
document.write("<h2 class=\"main_heading\">Please wait...</h2>");
document.write("<p class=\"large\">PDF Download is busy converting your Web Page to PDF.<br> This may take a couple of minutes.</p><br><br>");
document.write("<p class=\"large\"><strong>Note:</strong> If you click a link on this page, a new browser window will open. Don’t worry.<br> PDF Download will still continue to convert your Web page to PDF, even if you click away.</p>");
</script>
<!-- content for users with JavaScript disabled -->
<noscript>
<img src="../graphics/g_webtopdf_error.jpg" alt="JavaScript is disabled" width="675" height="216" border="0" align="left"><br clear="left">
<br>
<h2 class="main_heading">JavaScript is disabled</h2>
<p class="large">This page uses JavaScript. In order to use the PDF Download Web to PDF feature, you'll need to use a web browser with JavaScript enabled.</p><br><br>
</noscript>
<br clear="all">
</div>
</div>
<div class="column_306_right">
<div class="nitro_home">
<a href="https://online.primopdf.com/Default.aspx?utm_source=web2pdf&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=primoonline&utm_campaign=web2pdfbanner" target="_blank"><img src="/graphics/Loveonline.jpg" alt="Advertisement" border="0"></a><br>
</div>
</div>
<p id="footer">©2008 Nitro PDF, Inc. & Nitro PDF Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. <a href="../faq.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FAQ</a> - <a href="../forum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Forum</a> - <a href="../updates.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Product updates</a> - <a href="../translations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Translations</a> - <a href="../press.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the press</a> - <a href="../about.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">About Nitro PDF Software</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<script language="javascript" src="javascript/util.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write("\<script src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'>\<\/script>" );
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3212471-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview("/web2pdfreporting/request");
</script>
<input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Button" id="btnSubmit" style="visibility:hidden; display:none" />
<input name="txtPosted" type="hidden" id="txtPosted" value="false" />
<input name="leftMargin" type="hidden" id="leftMargin" value="0" />
<input name="rightMargin" type="hidden" id="rightMargin" value="0" />
<input name="topMargin" type="hidden" id="topMargin" value="0" />
<input name="bottomMargin" type="hidden" id="bottomMargin" value="0" />
<!---->
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Updated•16 years ago
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Summary: Example of common problem. → Password remembering unreliable
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Comment 1•16 years ago
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netflix has autocomplete="off" in its login page.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Updated•16 years ago
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Component: General → Networking: Cookies
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → networking.cookies
Summary: Password remembering unreliable → Logged out of web sites frequently; sometimes told I don't have cookies enabled
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Updated•16 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
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Comment 2•13 years ago
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Is this still an issue ?
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Updated•9 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago → 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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