I don’t update Firefox unless it’s a major release in the hopes of the bugs having been worked out. But either there’s new options in Firefox 3 that I need to learn to configure properly, or it’s buggy as far as saving sessions and cookies.
Sometimes it will open with an older session, and occasionally there’ll be no menu bars, just the tabs area. I can’t figure out a way to pull up any menu bars without the main menu (File, Edit, View, ect…), so I have to close and restart. Other times it will start with an older session, but at least my menus are loaded. My husband’s noticed his sessions load sporadically too.
And either Firefox 3, and/or Enhanced Cookie Manager are no longer saving my protected cookies like I’ve grown used to over the last few releases. I’m having to sign in to regular sites every time I load Firefox. Enhanced Cookie Manager was supposedly compatible with Firefox 3, so maybe some new security/privacy enhancements have been put into FF3 or ECM that need tweaking, but I’m not ruling out FF3 being buggy because it’s human nature to blame the new release when someone’s miffed at it 8^P
Under Options | Privacy | Cookies, I’m configured to accept cookies, and to delete them after they expire. Under Options | Privacy | Private Data, I’m configured to Always ask me before clearing private data. The Cookie Manager doesn’t appear to have changed with the release of FF3.
I just want FF3 to stop eating my cookies and sessions.
June 24, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I had the same problem. Cookies were lost after closing Firefox.
Cookies are saved in a SQLite database now. I tried to open the database in sqlite3_analyzer and I got corruption errors. So I went to Documents and Settings\[USER]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[PROFILE] and deleted cookies.sqlite. I started Firefox, logged in to some web sites, restarted Firefox and I was still logged in. Try that and see if it works.
June 30, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Hi Timo, I posted at an existing FF thread: http://tinyurl.com/5l5o9s
I was advised to start a new profile to see if it retained cookies, which it did. I reinstalled my addons since I wanted to see if any of them might have caused the problem, they didn’t, and migrated my bookmarks from the old profile to the new one.
I need to go back to their recommended link to see how to transfer my passwords; I have a system for most of my passwords so they’re somewhat easy to remember in the future. But one of my game sites encrypts the passwords somehow, and I can’t use what’s stored in the old profile to paste into the form while on the new profile. So I’ve been having to log into the old profile just to play my games.
I might have to fiddle around with your suggestion to solve my game/password cookie problem though, thanks.