Bug#619509: iceweasel: After allowing cookies preferences can no longer be set to reject cookies

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:23:35AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 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.

So, to summarize, as long as the set of checkboxes you chose matches the
default behaviour for "Remember history", then it switches back to
"Remember history" when you come back to the pref box.

This is indeed an upstream "issue", but I'm not sure this would qualify
as an issue... Please feel free to send a report to
bugzilla.mozilla.org, and give the bug number here.

Mike