WTF, firefox?

[lillerina]

Firefox seems to have forgotten how to keep me logged in to things. I'm not very impressed, and if I can't sort this out I'm going to switch - I have Opera, Safari and Google Chrome installed, so I may as well use one of those. I'm headed for the last straw with Firefox.

Anyone know how to make firefox keep me logged in? It keeps signing me out of my google account, various message boards, my blog... tres annoying.

[miketheheadlesschicken]

Under Tools>Options>Security, you can see if the box that says "Remember passwords for sites" is unchecked? That's all I know, really. I don't know if these things are reset if you delete cookies.

[Pyro Chick]

just get google chrome. it's awesome

[lillerina]

Remember passwords for sites is checked.

I have google chrome but I like to browse sans ads.

[SakuraSong]

Under Tools>Options>Security, you can see if the box that says "Remember passwords for sites" is unchecked? That's all I know, really. I don't know if these things are reset if you delete cookies.

Yeah, if your cookies are deleted every time you close Firefox, all of your passwords and info gets resetted. That's what I did, and I had to log in manually to everything. It is very annoying.

Tools<Options<Privacy, click on "Keep cookies until they expire".

[lillerina]

Under Tools>Options>Privacy it says "Firefox will... keep cookies from Web sites you visit."

[cwbyrvr]

Hrm, not sure, I have my FF set up to log me out of things and delete everything because I like to keep things private even though I rarely do anything online that I wouldn't want people seeing.

I could poke around in settings right now, I'm on a different computer, this one keeps me logged in even if the computer is turned off, so these settings might be just what you need.

Will edit this post if no one posts after me and I discover something that might help.

edit:
It doesn't specify an amount of time it keeps cookies? That seems odd. Is there no way to change how long it keeps them?
Is it set to browse privately by default?
Under the "security" tab is it set to remember passwords? Do you have the "keep me logged in" thing checked on the sites in question?

I'm not really certain I could help unless I was actually staring at your FF set up, to be honest.

[Enigma]

I don't remember where I did it but I once set firefox to purge all cookies and history whenever I closed it. Is it possible you accidentally have that setting on?

[cwbyrvr]

I don't remember where I did it but I once set firefox to purge all cookies and history whenever I closed it. Is it possible you accidentally have that setting on?

Yeah, this is how I have mine set. It clears all private data when it's closed... is the issue just that it logs you off everything when you close it, or is it logging you off while you're still using stuff? If that's the case, then I have no idea what the problem is, it probably can't be fixed in your settings, but I don't know for sure what your exact problem is.

[lillerina]

Only when I close it. It's set to keep cookies and keep passwords. I've gone through my settings with a fine toothed comb, everything is telling it keep me logged in, save my passwords, don't delete cookies.

[rowan]

So you don't have options that look like this:

Is that right? (the arrow I put pointing to the "how long to keep")

I think it's odd that you don't have something like that. And also that no one asked what version of Firefox you're using yet. So what version of FF are you using and on what platform (windows, macos, linux)?

[lillerina]

Ah, I've got it! I had it set to remember history, not 'custom settings for history', so it was just telling me, yes, I'm remembering cookies. When I changed it to custom settings for history, it had checked the 'private browsing session' so it was only keeping cookies until I closed firefox. I've changed it now to 'custom settings for history', unchecked the private browsing session, and told it to keep cookies until they expire.

Thanks rowan!

(For reference, I'm using Firefox 3.5.3 and windows vista)

[rowan]

*shudder* Vista....

Glad it helped. Sometimes a screencap is the best way to go.

[lillerina]

Spoke too soon. Didn't work.

Yeah, I hate Vista too.

[rowan]

Damn. Hmm....

Check out some of the things on the support forum?

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/ ... ogged%20in

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-newsear ... ged+in&sa=