778707 - about:permissions not reflecting complete list of sites that have set cookies

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 658556

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

If I go to "about:permissions" and search for "facebook", nothing is listed in the sites list.

If I then open the "manage cookies" dialog and do a search for "facebook" several cookies are listed, including five set by facebook.com itself.

The result is that I can delete these cookies, but I have no way to permanently block Facebook cookies since the site is not listed on "about:permissions".

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Is this related to bug 770705?

Comment 2

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Digging around a little more I've discovered that the permissions page doesn't reflect the cookie state even for sites that are listed.  For example, I look at "bhphoto" in my "manage cookies" dialog and there are three cookies listed, but if I click on the site in the permissions page, it says there are 0 cookies set.  

Screenshots coming.

Comment 3

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Attachment: Cookie manager dialog showing 3 cookies set for a site.

Comment 4

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Attachment: Permissions page claiming zero cookies set.

Comment 5

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Attachment: Cookie manager showing 23 cookies set for Twitter.

Another cookie/permissions discrepency.

Comment 6

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Attachment: Permissions page showing 20 Twitter cookies set.

Comment 7

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

+Margaret, who might still remember this code

Comment 8

[:Margaret Leibovic]

This sounds like a dupe of bug 658556.

Comment 9

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Seems likely. Very sad it's such a low priority, because we keep making it harder to actually control your cookie prefs.