iceweasel 17 and per-domain cookie rules

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:39:21AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 11/25/2012 09:20 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > i recently upgraded from iceweasel 16 to iceweasel 17 via the
> > experimental repo (i386).  my basic workflow is that I default to
> > declining all cookies, and i adjust that setting per-site via
> > right-click/view page info.../permissions/Use Cookies.
> > 
> > Since the upgrade, i notice that my heavily-used profile seems to have
> > forgotten which sites i have granted exceptions to. They are all set to
> > "Use Default", which means no cookies are being retained.
> > 
> > Is this something that could have/should have been dropped by the
> > version upgrade?
> 
> hmm. actually, i now think this is happening at every browser session
> (iceweasel forgets the stored preferences).
> 
> In particular, i have the following in my profile's prefs.js:
> 
> user_pref("network.cookie.cookieBehavior", 2);
> 
> and i have an exception set for www.debian-administration.org (a record
> in the moz_hosts table in permissions.sqlite, where host =
> "www.debian-administration.org", type = "cookie", permission = 1.
> 
> But when i restart my browser, and visit
> http://debian-administration.org/, right click the page and choose "view
> page info", and click on "Permissions", i can see that "Cookies" shows
> "Use Default" as checked (and in the radio buttons, "Block" is selected.
> 
> I haven't been able to replicate this yet with a minimal profile,
> unfortunately.  any thoughts or suggestions about what might have
> changed here?

It's probably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814554

Mike