647222 - Setting cookie pref to "Ask me every time" blocks page load even after cookie is accepted

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Slater]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I have my browser set to accept cookies, but ask me every time whether I want to accept a cookie or not. More often than not, even if I'm quick to accept the cookie, the page will remain unloaded, and I have to hit reload for the page to appear. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set cookie pref to "Ask me every time"
2. Go to a site that sets one or more cookies
3. Accept the cookie 
Actual Results:  
After accepting the cookie, the browser seems to stop loading any parts of the page - the browser window remains white, the status bar still says "Loading xyz.com", and never actually finishes loading.

Expected Results:  
Page should have continued/completed loading.

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

WFM. I don't get any delays in loading the following URLs:

http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.ibm.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Comment 2

[Vlad [QA]]

Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0a2) Gecko/20110413 Firefox/5.0a2.

The pages are loaded completely after accepting the cookies.

Also, could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it)
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 3

[Vlad [QA]]

Reporter, do you have anything new to add about this issue?

Comment 4

[Mark Slater]

Hi Vlad,

Nothing new to report, despite the fact that I still see this behavior with my default profile.

I don't think I have too many extensions installed (Web Dev Toolbar, Nuke Anything, Firebug), so it could be an issue with them not responding well to my clicking away the cookie request window? I'll mark this as resolved, for now, until I can come up with a reproducible test case.