On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 Mart Rootamm wrote:
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> The only recourse has been to use Firefox 38.x ESR, because it has so far
> retained the cookie prompt functionality.
>
For what it's worth, the Tor Browser project has stuck with 38.8 ESR for
their maintenance release but their alpha branch is using
The problem with Firefox 44 and greater is, that Mozilla removed the cookie
prompt from core Firefox, namely the "Ask me every time" option for "Keep
[cookies] until:". This affects all browsers that use the Gecko rendering
engine, including Seamonkey.
The relevant bugs are here:
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On June 7, Mozilla released a batch of security updates on their ESR 45
branch. Upstream support for the ESR 38 has apparently been dropped.
Several of the fixed bugs are labelled "critical" by Mozilla, and some
are expected to allow arbitrary code execution by a remote attacker.