Dan asked:
I've been trying to visit the website http://www.cosis.net/ with Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo.
Even though I have an exception set in my preferences, to allow cookies from cosis.net, the site complains bitterly that `Cookies are currently disabled in your browser', and therefore refuses to let me see any of its content.
This is particularly odd because, by this time, cosis.net actually has successfully set a cookie.
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Any ideas, please?
After many redirects, it seems that the div#nocookies block is displayed, then hidden with the following javascript:
<script type="text/javascript"> var nocookies = document.getElementById("nocookies"); if (checkBrowser() && (navigator.cookieEnabled != true) && nocookies && (nocookies.style.display=="none")) nocookies.style.display = "block"; </script>
Maybe someone who knows javascript OTTOTH can explain why that doesn't work in Firefox 3.6.4 on Gentoo?
Generally, it looks like made-for-specific-browsers silliness. I can't even tell what the site does as it replaced all pages with the javascript and cookies whine. If I was their customer, I wouldn't be for much longer.
Hope that helps,