[tor-bugs] #11303 [Tor bundles/installation]: TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3 no longer accepts any cookies or remembers any history

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#11303: TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3 no longer accepts any cookies or remembers any
history
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     Reporter:  jake                      |      Owner:  erinn
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
   Resolution:                            |   Keywords:  tbb-usability
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:3 jake]:
 > I came to the conclusion that there had been a flip in the privacy
 policy
 > by observing the fact that whenever I started TorBrowserBundle-3.5.2 and
 > looked at the privacy tab in the preferences dialog, it says:
 >
 >   TorBrowser will: Remember History
 >
 > However, when I do the same thing with TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3, it says:
 >
 >   TorBrowser will: Never Remember History
 >
 > instead. From what you say, perhaps that was a bug in 3.5.2.

 Well, I don't think so. There (fresh 3.5.2.1) I still see a Never Remember
 History. Not sure what was wrong. Maybe you disabled the Private Browsing
 Mode due to login problesm with TBB 3.5.2 (see #10569)?

 > As for no longer accepting cookies, that is not an assumption but
 another
 > observation. Specifically, when I visit a site that I know uses cookies
 > (such as google) in TorBrowserBundle-3.5.2, and click on the Tor button
 > and select the cookie protections menu item, it would present me with a
 > dialog box that showed me the current list of cookies and there would be
 > cookies displayed there. However, when I do the same thing in
 > TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3, the cookie protections dialog box appears with
 the
 > part that displays the current list of cookies is always empty.

 Well, alas, that does nothing say about available cookies. Rather, this is
 a known Mozilla bug, see: #10353. Cookies are not visible in the Private
 Browsing Mode at the moment. That's why I was asking.

 > In addition to that, whenever I try to log into a website that uses
 cookies
 > for logging in (e.g. ebay), it doesn't work. It just returns me to the
 > preceding page with the "sign in" links still present (which aren't
 there
 > when the user is signed in). That was the dead giveaway that made me
 look
 > at the cookie protections dialog in the first place.

 But that can have a bunch of different issues (which is why #10569 was
 closed as it turned out to be an unrelated one). Btw: Logging into this
 bugtracker needs working cookies, too. So, the best thing to do is to file
 different bugs for each site not behaving as expected like I did with
 #11293 and #11294 and then to close this bug. Thanks!

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