726558 - Cookie Confirmation renders Firefox unusable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 430006

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Hadmut Danisch]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0
Build ID: 20120129141257

Steps to reproduce:

I've set the Privacy mode to ask for confirmation before accepting cookies. 

This works well when the Cookies are set by the server providing the master HTML page. But when the Cookies are set by servers providing many page elements, like dozens or hundreds of thumbnail images (see e.g.  http://www.masterfile.com/stock-photography/search/Greg+Stott ) firefox opens dozens or hundreds of dialog windows. Unfortunately, only the latest listens to mouse actions, but you never know, which of these plenty windows is the latest active one. Can't even close the browser window then but have to kill the browser. 


Actual results:

see above


Expected results:

Open only one requester window per web server.

Comment 2

[John Smith]

It's ridiculous this bug has persisted for nearly a decade.  I actually STOPPED using Firefox two years ago because I got tired of this bug on my Mac.  I now use Chrome as my only web browser.  This is ridiculous.  It's a shame, because I really really really wanted to support Mozilla, but this bug rendered the browser totally unusable on my Mac.