(In reply to D. Hugh Redelmeier from comment #30) > I'm getting a particularly frustrating variant of this problem with firefox > 17.0 on 64-bit Fedora 17 Gnome. > > I get a stack of these cookie confirmation dialog boxes and I wish to click > "allow for Session" on each of them. The top of the stack won't take a > click! If I drag the FF window, some of the stack of dialog boxes moves, > and some doesn't. Then, at least one of the visible boxes can be clicked > and dismissed. > > Observation 1: the biggest surprise is that the box that I can click after > this maneuver seems to have the same contents as the former top box that was > unresponsive. I wonder if the display was not correctly rendered before the > maneuver. > > Observation 2: if the cookie dialog box were not modal (is that the correct > term?) and each of them would take clicks at any time, the order of the > stacking would not be so critical. > > Right now, I feel like I'm in a game of Adventure (twisty little passages, > all alike) and I don't want to be.
Yes, this is the bug that is being complained about here. Nasty. Suggest you take Marcus' (as I have) and install the https://addons.mozilla.org /en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-controller/ add-on. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833952 Title: cookie dialogues can pile up out of order, but must still be clicked in order To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/833952/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
