750990 - firefox 12.0 doesn't retain cookie or pop-up exceptions after firefox closes.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 702415

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[joelfishman.pmet1]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

Under Options | Privacy,  and Options | Content, entered cookie and pop-up exceptions. This was a clean install of Firefox 12.0 on a new computer.


Actual results:

after closing firefox and reopening, both exception fields are blank. Never had this problem with previous versions.  Removed firefox 12 (completely, including profiles) and reinstalled, same behavior.


Expected results:

configuration of exceptions lists should survive closing and restarting the application or they are useless.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

If you have "Clear History when Firefox closes" box ticked in this dialog:
https://support.mozilla.org/media/uploads/gallery/images/2011-02-03-06-25-24-9a2697.png

Is the "Site Preferences" box ticked in this dialog that opens when you click the "Settings" button?
https://support.mozilla.org/media/uploads/gallery/images/2011-02-03-06-25-43-c0b014.png

Comment 2

[joelfishman.pmet1]

(In reply to Mardeg from comment #1)
> If you have "Clear History when Firefox closes" box ticked in this dialog:
> https://support.mozilla.org/media/uploads/gallery/images/2011-02-03-06-25-24-
> 9a2697.png
> 
> Is the "Site Preferences" box ticked in this dialog that opens when you
> click the "Settings" button?
> https://support.mozilla.org/media/uploads/gallery/images/2011-02-03-06-25-43-
> c0b014.png

Yes and Yes, but clear history details has "cookies" unchecked. These same settings worked in ver. 11 and earlier. Clearing any history shouldn't delete preferences.

Comment 3

[joelfishman.pmet1]

Ok, so testing confirms that unchecking "Site Preferences" keeps the exception lists using FF12 and win7.

1) Was it different with FF11 and XPSP3? I copied my settings from another system that was working properly.

2) I still think that this isn't proper behavior under "clear history" options, but having looked at other Mozilla comments I can see that I'm not alone in this opinion.