On 2016-12-12 19:52 -0500, Robert Munyer wrote: > Control: retitle -1 firefox-esr disobeys "until I close Firefox" cookie > setting > Control: reassign -1 firefox-esr 45.5.1esr-1 > > Bug still present in firefox-esr 45.5.1esr-1, in Debian "stretch". > To replicate: > > Open Firefox ESR. > > Configure Firefox thus: > ≡ > Preferences > Privacy > History > Firefox will: Use custom settings for history > Accept cookies from sites > Keep until: I close Firefox > > Browse to http://noscript.net/features . > > Click the "Go back one page" button. > > Close Firefox. > > After the preceding steps, the cookie must not exist. > To see that it does exist, continue with the following steps: > > Open Firefox ESR. > > Click "Restore Previous Session". > > View cookies: > ≡ > Preferences > Privacy > History > Show Cookies...
Basically that's the way session restore works, and I have always seen this as a feature rather than a bug, although that is certainly debatable. Some upstream discussions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443354 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529644 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530594 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286748 Cheers, Sven
