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BarTopDancer
03-25-2009, 10:40 AM
I have the oddest issue happening and I have no idea what happened and I can't fix it.

A few days ago all the websites I go to started logging themselves out whenever I close my browser (FireFox). I haven't changed any settings, there haven't been any updates to FF (that I recall) and I double checked, nothing is selected under the internet settings to say automatically log out.

It's getting annoying.

Any suggestions on what else to check?
Kevy Baby
03-25-2009, 10:41 AM
I have not been stealing your Girl Scout Cookies
Not Afraid
03-25-2009, 10:44 AM
I seriously thought this was going to be the place where I was forced to confess that I ate an entire packet of Thin Mints last night.
BarTopDancer
03-25-2009, 10:49 AM
/rubs hands together.


Yes, my plan worked! ;)
Moonliner
03-25-2009, 10:56 AM
I have the oddest issue happening and I have no idea what happened and I can't fix it.

A few days ago all the websites I go to started logging themselves out whenever I close my browser (FireFox). I haven't changed any settings, there haven't been any updates to FF (that I recall) and I double checked, nothing is selected under the internet settings to say automatically log out.

It's getting annoying.

Any suggestions on what else to check?

I have not been stealing your Girl Scout Cookies

*sigh* First off I'm sorry you have to deal with this type of response when you are just looking for a little help.

Have you checked the cookie settings under FireFox? There is an option to only save cookies for the current session. Check out this tutorial (http://mozilla.gunnars.net/firefox_help_firefox_cookie_tutorial.html#Firefox_ Cookie_Options)for more info.
Ghoulish Delight
03-25-2009, 11:05 AM
1) It could be that your cookies got corrupted. You may have to clear all your cookies and start again.

2) I also expected to open this thread and find, "All of my girl scout cookies are gone. How could this have happened?"
BarTopDancer
03-25-2009, 11:10 AM
*sigh* First off I'm sorry you have to deal with this type of response when you are just looking for a little help.

Have you checked the cookie settings under FireFox? There is an option to only save cookies for the current session. Check out this tutorial (http://mozilla.gunnars.net/firefox_help_firefox_cookie_tutorial.html#Firefox_ Cookie_Options)for more info.

Eh, they don't bother me unless that is what the entire thread derails to ;)


My cookie setting has been and are still set to "keep until they expire".

The only thing I can think of that is different is that I recently removed Flock from my computer. Now that I think about it, I think it may have happened right after I removed it. I wonder if Flock removed a file that I needed.

GD - I already deleted all the cookies, also ran Ad Aware and AVG to make sure nothing fishy was installed.

And I still have some girl scout cookies left, and more coming over MA weekend!
Kevy Baby
03-25-2009, 12:11 PM
*sigh* First off I'm sorry you have to deal with this type of response when you are just looking for a little help.You're only mad because you didn't get to say it first
blueerica
03-25-2009, 01:53 PM
Damn it, I wanted GS cookie talk!
JWBear
03-25-2009, 02:58 PM
Give it time.
BarTopDancer
03-25-2009, 03:12 PM
Reinstalled FF, still no luck :(
DreadPirateRoberts
03-25-2009, 03:25 PM
I'm sorry you lost your cookies.
Pirate Bill
03-25-2009, 05:18 PM
Try renaming the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla

Name it something like Mozilla_backup. (Be sure to close Firefox and any other Mozilla product (like Thunderbird) that you may have open.) Then launch Firefox again. See if that helps.

My thinking is that there's a corrupt file in there that wasn't cleared out when you uninstalled/reinstalled. Firefox will recreate all the files in the Mozilla folder if it doesn't find one.
Kevy Baby
03-25-2009, 05:19 PM
I'm sorry you lost your cookies.Better than tossing 'em
BarTopDancer
03-25-2009, 05:25 PM
Try renaming the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla

Name it something like Mozilla_backup. (Be sure to close Firefox and any other Mozilla product (like Thunderbird) that you may have open.) Then launch Firefox again. See if that helps.

My thinking is that there's a corrupt file in there that wasn't cleared out when you uninstalled/reinstalled. Firefox will recreate all the files in the Mozilla folder if it doesn't find one.

I did some research and it sounds like the cookie.txt file and cookies.sqlite were corrupted. I ended up doing a fresh install of FF. Not ideal, but it fixed the issue.

Thank you to those who offered actual help.

I'll now go enjoy my girl scout cookies. Neener.
3894
03-26-2009, 10:34 AM
I seriously thought this was going to be the place where I was forced to confess that I ate an entire packet of Thin Mints last night.

Quiet! What know one sees you eat has no calories.

I am living proof this works.
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 08:30 AM
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

This is happening again. The only fix I can find still is the renmaing of the files, which isn't working. I really don't want to reinstall FF.
Pirate Bill
05-14-2009, 09:48 AM
Have you tried my suggestion from post #13?
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 10:01 AM
Yes, and it did exactly what reinstalling FF did. Deleted all my bookmarks and settings. I copied over my bookmarks folder and it didn't pick them up.

I was hoping to avoid losing everything again.
Ghoulish Delight
05-14-2009, 10:04 AM
re: bookmarks, you can always go into Organize Bookmarks and click "Import and Backup" to re-import any bookmark folder you've made a copy of.
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 10:06 AM
re: bookmarks, you can always go into Organize Bookmarks and click "Import and Backup" to re-import any bookmark folder you've made a copy of.

You're my hero. I was looking all over for that. Thank you.
blueerica
05-14-2009, 11:57 AM
I eated them.

Sorry this is happening again... :(
Morrigoon
05-14-2009, 03:44 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only person who's been having this problem!
Snowflake
05-14-2009, 06:24 PM
I read the title of this thread and thought, no more tim tams.
CoasterMatt
05-14-2009, 06:34 PM
I thought FireFox was der uber browser?

Has this happened recently with Opera, Safari or Chrome?
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 09:16 PM
I eated them.

Sorry this is happening again... :(

Stop eateded my cookies!
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 09:17 PM
I thought FireFox was der uber browser?

Has this happened recently with Opera, Safari or Chrome?

I dunno. I only use FF and I started using FF for the tabs and not because it was der uber browser.
wendybeth
05-14-2009, 10:20 PM
It's happening on my comp as well. I am starting to really hate Firefox....might be time to switch.
BarTopDancer
05-14-2009, 10:43 PM
Erica ate them!
bewitched
06-08-2009, 02:34 AM
Just started happening on mine today. :(
Motorboat Cruiser
06-08-2009, 06:18 AM
I just had to do a reinstall of Firefox because it was running incredibly slow. I think I narrowed it down to being a Realplayer plug in, but I am also in the "Firefox is frustrating me" camp.

Another thing that bugs me is that I used to be able to click a folder and choose "Open all in tabs" and it would close all of the existing tabs before opening the new batch. It worked really well, until they eliminated that feature with one of their upgrades. Now I have to manually close all of the previous tabs first before doing so. It's a PITA.