Package: iceweasel Version: 3.5.16-6 Severity: normal Hi,
I went to preferences->privacy and checked the button to allow all sites to set cookies. After that calling up preferences->privacy the check boxes regarding cookies went away and was replaced with "Iceweasel will remember your browsing, download, form and search history and keep cookies from Web sites you visit. You may want to _clear_your_recent_history_, or _remove_individual_cookies_." It now seems impossible to reject cookies. After poking about for some time I see the problem. If you have "Use custom settings for history" and check all of: Remember my browsing history for at least X days Remember download history Remember search and form history Accept cookies from sites Accept third-party cookies but check none of the remainder then iceweasel switches from "Use custom settings for history" to "Remember history" and all of the checkboxes go away, but only after closing and re-opening the preferences dialog! To get the checkboxes back you need to change the menu item. The checkboxes should not magically disappear like this. If I call them up by setting custom settings then they should still be there no matter what custom settings I choose. I'm sure this is an upstream issue but I no longer recall the long intro reportbug gave me about iceweasel and upstream problems. Please let me know if I should report it upstream or if it's fixed in a newer firefox. Thanks. (Now that I think of it I swear I had this same problem years and years ago and stumbled about for a while then too.) FWIW, here's more info and the process I went through while trying to debug this problem. ----------------------------------- This is a security issue. about:config says: pref.privacy.disable_button.cookie_exceptions user set boolean true pref.privacy.disable_button.view_cookies user set boolean true Changing these seems to make no difference, although I did not reboot. (I left these set to "false".) Installing the cookie monster extension seemed to fix the problem. I then tried "iceweasel --safe-mode" and reproduced the problem. After restarting in regular mode I again do not have the checkboxes to reject cookies. Un-installing the cookie monster extension and re-installing it does not seem to fix the problem. Changing the about:config settings above and rebooting does not fix the problem. FYI about:config also says: network.cookie.prefsMigrated user set boolen true privacy.item.cookies default boolen false -- Package-specific info: -- Extensions information Name: Adblock Plus Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d} Status: enabled Name: Certificate Patrol Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/certpat...@psyc.eu Status: enabled Name: Cookie Monster Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{45d8ff86-d909-11db-9705-005056c00008} Status: enabled Name: Default Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} Package: iceweasel Status: enabled Name: DownloadHelper Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d} Status: enabled Name: Image Zoom Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1A2D0EC4-75F5-4c91-89C4-3656F6E44B68} Status: enabled Name: NoScript Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232} Status: enabled Name: User Agent Switcher Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{e968fc70-8f95-4ab9-9e79-304de2a71ee1} Status: enabled Name: VideoDownloader Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/videodowloa...@videodownloader.net Status: app-disabled Name: Web Developer Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12} Status: user-disabled -- Plugins information Name: DivX® Web Player Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so Package: totem-mozilla Status: enabled Name: Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_24 Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.24/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so Package: sun-java6-bin Status: disabled Name: QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so Package: totem-mozilla Status: enabled Name: Skype Buttons for Kopete Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/skypebuttons.so Package: kopete Status: enabled Name: VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.30.2) Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so Package: totem-mozilla Status: enabled Name: Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so Package: totem-mozilla Status: enabled Name: iTunes Application Detector Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so Package: rhythmbox-plugins Status: enabled -- Addons package information ii iceweasel 3.5.16-6 Web browser based on Firefox ii kopete 4:4.4.5-2 instant messaging and chat application ii rhythmbox-plug 0.12.8-3 plugins for rhythmbox music player ii sun-java6-bin 6.24-1~squeeze Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (ar ii totem-mozilla 2.30.2-6 Totem Mozilla plugin -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.16-6 XUL + XPCOM application runner iceweasel recommends no packages. Versions of packages iceweasel suggests: ii latex-xft-fonts 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libkrb53 1.8.3+dfsg-4 transitional package for MIT Kerbe pn mozplugger <none> (no description available) ii ttf-lyx 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available) pn xfonts-mathml <none> (no description available) pn xprint <none> (no description available) Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.1 depends on: ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmozjs2d 1.9.1.16-6 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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