528767 - Pop-up windows, Exceptions, Sites are not retained after Firefox closes.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[ghcghc7]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2) Gecko/20091108 Firefox/3.6b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2b2) Gecko/20091108 Firefox/3.6b2

Web sites added to the pop-up exceptions by: Tools, Options, Content, Block pop-up windows (check mark), Exceptions, Address of web site, Allow, Close, are not retained after the Firefox session is closed and reopened.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Could you give a link to a URL?

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Which addons do you have installed? Please run Firefox in Safe Mode to check if an addon is causing this problem. See http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode.

Comment 3

[ghcghc7]

URLs -- web2.westlaw.com & print.westlaw.com.  I have several addons installed.  However, I opened Firefox in Safe Mode and added the two sites above to the popup exception list (Tools, Options, Content, Block pop-up windows checked, Exceptions, Address of Website keyed in, Allow, Close, OK).  I closed Firefox Safe Mode, reopened Firefox in Safe Mode and the two sites were no longer listed in the "Allowed Sites" list.

Comment 4

[ghcghc7]

I should add that, the same steps produce the same result in Firefox 3.5.5 using Safe Mode.  Also, prior to Firefox 3.5, this feature did work with these URLs.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Are you deleting any items of your recent history when shutting down Firefox? Please check under privacy inside the options.

Does a fresh profile shows the same problem for you? See http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 6

[Sander Smeenk]

Wow! This bug is more than 12 years old! I came to report the same!

The "Clear History..."-feature, specifically the "[√] Site Preferences"-option under "Data" in the "Clear History..."-window in Firefox removes the "Block Pop-Up Windows" exceptions. This is unexpected. At least for me, and possibly others as well.

I have Firefox set to "Use custom settings for history" and "[√] Clear history when firefox closes ..", with the "[√] Site Preferences" ticked.

When rubber-ducking this "bug" at this moment, i realise that it could be argued that an exception to block pop-ups is the same as an exception to allow microphone usage or the likes, but it feels like pop-up block exceptions are more of a browser-feature-thing than a Site Preference per se.

Perhaps make this an 'Improvement'-type bug, and make clear what "Site Preferences" actually are