firefox issues

Nikolas · Tue 21/07/2009 07:05:48

Firefox is no longer keeping cookies (if I understand it correctly).

My homepage is the AGS forums (of course), but whenever I close and open firefox, I will have to login again, even though it remembers the login information!

I tried changing settings, allowing cookies (already allowed), but in no vail. No idea what's wrong and no firewall, except windows one.

Any ideas, please?

miguel · Tue 21/07/2009 08:48:11

I left the forums yesterday for a while and when I came back I wasn't logged in. I would normally still be logged. That and the strange letter formatting that nobody believed me when I mentioned makes firefox a bit weird this days.

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11
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I'm using XP as well

Khris · Tue 21/07/2009 08:55:39

This probably isn't very helpful, but I don't have any problems whatsoever. (Firefox 3.0.11 on XP)

LUniqueDan · Tue 21/07/2009 09:00:17

I tried Google Chrome after the Last 'Browser thread' in Gen-Gen. I'm Firefox-free since 3 weeks now.

You should give a Try Nikolas, it really worth it.

SSH · Tue 21/07/2009 09:21:28

If it wasn't keeping cookies, you wouldn't be able to log in at all. Are you sure you haven't set "Remove private data on close" option or something?

Nikolas · Tue 21/07/2009 09:31:18

Pretty sure, Andrew...

Dan, I'll give it a go, but it still seems weird that all of a sudden Firefox decided to stop keeping me logged in in all the forums I'm at... $:-\$

Paper Carnival · Tue 21/07/2009 10:04:48

I've been using Chrome for a long time. There are some very minor things I miss about Firefox, but Chrome is a much lighter browser and is generally preferable to Firefox. Plus, it has that awesome incognito mode, which is just perfect for browsing your favourite pr0n sites.

InCreator · Tue 21/07/2009 10:40:18

Using firefox 3.5 beta, which feels like lightspeed-accelerated compared to FF3
Also, built-in video/flash playing and less need of plugins of any kind makes it worth every second

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.1/

I had cookie problem... with FF2? It solved with FF upgrade

SSH · Tue 21/07/2009 11:00:58

FF3.5 has a smaller footprint than chrome, nearly as fast javascript and the "private"mode, too. The only advantage chrome has now is the spearate processes.

rharpe · Tue 21/07/2009 14:34:58

Quote from: Nikolas on Tue 21/07/2009 07:05:48
Firefox is no longer keeping cookies (if I understand it correctly).

My homepage is the AGS forums (of course), but whenever I close and open firefox, I will have to login again, even though it remembers the login information!

I tried changing settings, allowing cookies (already allowed), but in no vail. No idea what's wrong and no firewall, except windows one.

Any ideas, please?

Uninstall the browser after you save your bookmarks. Make sure you do the full and complete uninstall with the loss of saved passwords, personal settings, etc. Install Firefox 3.5.1... it rocks!

I have yet to see any crashes or strange cookie issues. (Be sure you're not running CCleaner or some automatic cookie cleaning program. Also, make sure your settings in Firefox are not set to delete cookies on exit of the browser.)

Snarky · Tue 21/07/2009 15:01:15

When this happened to me a while back, it had to do with hitting the wrong forum URL. Are you going to adventuregamestudio.co.uk or adventuregamestudio.co.uk?

Nikolas · Tue 21/07/2009 17:25:20

This is happening to ALL the forums, e-mail clients, etc... Not only on the AGS forums... (BTW, typing from Chrome and can't say I really like it... $:-\$ )

Mantra of Doom · Tue 21/07/2009 17:46:22

I had an issue like this a couple of months ago. I found the answer on a forum after trying to reset the cookies. The following worked for me and I haven't had a problem since.

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There may be a problem with the file that stores the cookies.
Delete cookies.sqlite and cookies.txt (may not be there) in the Profile Folder.
See Cookies (MozillaZine KB)

Nikolas · Tue 21/07/2009 18:48:22

Thanks Mantra!

It worked like a charm! I'm back to Firefox!

Mantra of Doom · Tue 21/07/2009 19:42:36

You're welcome Nikolas! Glad to hear that worked.

Sometimes you just have to destroy some crazy little files and make them recreate for you.

Paper Carnival · Tue 21/07/2009 20:01:35

I'm also back to Firefox now. Thanks everyone!