633763 - Cookie confirmation dialogs should be tab-modal

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Nicos Gollan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Accepting cookies is a content-specific action that does not require an application-modal dialog.

With the recent implementation of tab-modal dialogs, cookie confirmation should be done with one of those.

Bug 515521 should be fixed along with this.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Yes, this would be great polish and user experience enhancement for FF 5.

Comment 2

[Nicos Gollan]

Attachment: Attempt to visit the National Geographic website

This is what happens when trying to open the NatGeo website with cookie confirmation. The front page initially opened 35 cookie dialogues. While quick-clicking through all the "NO!" buttons, new ones popped up and got lost somewhere under the stack. The screenshot was made after trying to find the current topmost dialogue, and before SIGTERMing the whole mess.

If it wasn't for bookmarks management, I'd have ditched this whole damn regressionfest mess in favour of Chrome or Opera a long time ago. Stop cramming in ever more useless bling and fix the basic usability issues.

Comment 3

[vrasidas]

A better way to handle the cookie questions would be to pop up a single window, with a list of cookies and 3 rows of checkboxes (block, accept for session and accept) with the appropriate select all buttons etc.

Comment 4

[Charles Evans]

If you read the related bugs (below), 
it should be abundantly clear that fixing this 
will give the user an alternative to killing firefox.
Technically "polish" is not wrong, but this "enhancement" 
will turn major bugs into normal ones. 
Comment #3 would likely resolve most of these.

see:
 bug 427184 replace pop-up cookie prompt dialog with use of information bar
 bug 434971 Multiple cookie "confirmations" requested for same site with "ask me every time" 
  bug 515521 – All pending cookie popups for a given domain should be handled when one of them is in the cookie confirmation dialog
 bug 616843 A number of modal prompts should be made tab-modal
See links for bugs in comment #10:
 bug 426114 comment #2 – Multiple accept popups for the same cookie. 50+! 
 bug 420155 Large number of cookies come in and the active dialog does not always have the focus 
 bug 420512 The Cookie LEARN option cannot be stopped at once and begs many times until website stops setting cookies
 bug 430006 – Infinite dialog loop for cookie permission
( bug 633763 Cookie confirmation dialogs should be tab-modal ) this bug

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We don't have cookie confirmation dialogs anymore.

Comment 6

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email [e-mail]) from comment #5)
> We don't have cookie confirmation dialogs anymore.

Not per default but we still have them if you have custom cookie settings in the Privacy tab. Some people still use those as bug 440973 suggests. I'd say we either we rip them out or make them tab-modal.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We should definitely rip them out, AFAIK they have all sorts of issues.

Comment 8

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email [e-mail]) from comment #7)
> We should definitely rip them out, AFAIK they have all sorts of issues.

I found out that there already is bug 546746 for that.