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#1 2009-06-18 19:20:12
- arew264
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Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
I've always had this problem, and I've always forgotten to do something about it. I use Firefox for web browsing, but seemingly every time I quit it, it looses cookies, and the next time I start it, I have to log in again. It doesn't bother me because one extension I use (GMarks) logs me into iGoogle, so I just have to refresh the homepage to get logged in. However, my logins to forumsl liks this are lost every time.
As for extensions I have installed:
GreaseMonkey
Google Gears
GMarks
gDocsBar
Better Youtube
In my privacy settings, I have it set to accept all cookies, and I don't clear private information... pretty much ever. History is set to 90 days, if that matters.
Where does Firefox even store cookies?
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#2 2009-06-19 19:44:29
- R00KIE
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
Did you try to uncheck the clear private data when closing and set the browser to keep the cookies until they expire?
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#3 2009-06-19 19:46:47
- arew264
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
Cookies are set to stay until they expire, and "Clear private data when I exit Gran Paradiso" is unchecked.
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#4 2009-06-20 00:00:23
- skottish
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
Where does Firefox even store cookies?
~/.mozilla/firefox/<Really_ugly_directory_name>/cookies.sqlite
I'd check to make sure that the user is the owner of that file and that the permissions are -rx-r--r--.
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#5 2009-06-20 05:51:21
- arew264
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
cookies.sqlite is chmodded to 700, and my user does own it. That should be fine, right?
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#6 2009-06-20 14:16:46
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
cookies.sqlite is chmodded to 700, and my user does own it. That should be fine, right?
On the one that I have, it's 644 not 700. I've never changed it manually; That's the default values. I don't know if it will make any difference.
You may want to try moving that file and restarting Firefox to see if anything changes; Possibly with using an entirely new profile (moving the whole ~/.mozilla directory). You may also try to 'vaccum' all of the sqlite files in the profile. I doubt that will help, but it's good practice to keep Firefox functioning properly:
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#7 2010-04-17 05:24:31
- seisatsu
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Re: Firefox Cookies... Vanish?
I can confirm this. I have been having this problem for several months. I even went so far as deleting all of my firefox profiles, but that didn't fix anything. cookies.sqlite is -rw-r--r--, and owned by me.
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