TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3 no longer accepts any cookies or remembers any history
The latest upgrade (TorBrowserBundle-3.5.3-osx32_en-US / Firefox ESR 24.4.0) has flipped its privacy policy from remembering history to not remembering history and it also no longer accepts any cookies at all so logging into websites that require cookies is now impossible.
The previous version (TorBrowserBundle-3.5.2-osx32_en-US / Firefox ESR 24.3.0esrpre) did remember history and did accept cookies.
This looks like a bug from here. The design document only says that third party cookies are not to be accepted.
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Username: jake
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Works for me. And no, there has been no flip in the privacy policy. How did you come to this conclusion? And why do you assume that it no longer accepts cookies (which it does on my machine)? Tested with a freshly downloaded en-US bundle on 10.6.
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Version: Tor: unspecified to N/A
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-usability added
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.
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.
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.
Anyway, I'm happy that it works for you. Now, any idea why it's not working for me?
By the way, the behaviour I'm seeing occurs on two separate macosx-10.6.8 laptops.
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Username: jake-
Replying to 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 (closed))?
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 (moved). 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 (closed) 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 (moved) and #11294 (moved) and then to close this bug. Thanks!
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Replying to gk:
Replying to jake: Not sure what was wrong. Maybe you disabled the Private Browsing Mode due to login problesm with TBB 3.5.2 (see #10569 (closed))?
That must be what happened. Funny I don't remember ever seeing the dialog box where that setting is. It just shows that you can't trust memory.
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 (closed) 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 (moved) and #11294 (moved) and then to close this bug. Thanks!
Will do, thanks.
More testing shows that logging to ebay.com.au works some times and not others. I doubt that it warrants another report.
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Username: jake
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug