Firefox launch a lot of dialogs asking authorizations for a cookie
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
The problem was on www.x10.com and I when I try to go there, a lot of dialogs asking me authorization to put a second cookie, of course I have configured my FF to ask me if I accept cookies from others. Another things is why ask the same thing so many times?, if I choose some of the options why not the others close automatically if they ask the same question? and when I finally find the dialog that is blocking FF, the focus go to another dialog but isn't where I can click, then I have to search again the new blocking dialog. Some similar problem happened to me with a diminute dialog that I had to resize to click a button in order to close and unblocking the FF, so exist a focus problem with FF or maybe with Gnome.
Plugins: I have installed a language pack for spanish and a traslator and FF 3.0 beta 5.
Thanks guys for your great job.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 22 08:12:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=es_CO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
| Jorge Q (jquiroga2005) wrote | #1 |
| Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak) wrote | #2 |
| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Likewise, I find this focus-stealing behavior to be easily my pet peeve about firefox. It wouldn't be so bad if:
- accepting/rejecting the cookies in a dialog for someserver.com applied to all the dialogs for that server. Often I'll get a particular server trying to set 5 different cookies, and get 5 dialogs opened, layered over each other. If i accept/reject it (and tell it to remember that decision), it should apply to them all
- it didn't switch tabs when an unfocused tab pops up a dialog
- ideally, if this were in a little top-bar trick like when firefox blocks a popup/xpi install, that would be really slick.