Firefox wont keep me signed in

Hey,

using FF3 on a vista machine.

Firefox no longer keeps me signed in on pages. I have i-google set as my homepage and everytime i started my browser i would immediately arrive at my page. Now everytime i start up, im taken to a default page and must sign in manually. It is still remembering my passwords and everytime i sign in i do in fact check off the box that says "keep me signed in" or "remember me on this computer".

Im signed in right now and if i close my browser and re-open it, it doesn't keep me signed in.

Help. Thanks

 

Your cookies are being cleared. Check your settings so it doesnt get cleared everytime you exit FF

Options > Privacy > Cookies kept until they expire

Also under private data make sure cookies is unticked for clearing

 

Check your settings, is there a setting like "Clear Cache and Cookies upon exit" or something like that?

Better yet, get Opera!

EDIT: flipfire used his mod powers to read my reply and then put his up!

 

Those are my settings, and its still doing it

 

I've hear many people are having problems with FF3, like lags, crashes and in some extreme cases, rashes.

Try un-installing it, clearing your cache, clearing everything related to it (try cleaning your registry as well if you can), and then re-installing it.

 

wow..that sucks. I'd rather just live with it. Any other suggestions

 

Yes, download Opera. It's better anyways. Give it a chance, should you encounter any problems, post here and we'd be happy to help you sort them out.

 

Opera is not better than FF....

You must have something clearing out your cookies

 

Yes, it is. FireFox needs 2000 plugins and 25 million downloads just to be able to be in the same league.

 

I can only think of one plugin and that's all-n-one gestures....

Firefox is better because of its 2000 plugins that you can use to customize your browser to your liking.

OP: Have you tried just reinstalling FF3?

 

there is nothing to be concerned about. u close the browser, u close the session with the host, it has the right to terminate for security reason. All browsers are and will be doing this, sending a signal of session termination.

How would u like to have someone else walking by, open tne browser and get into ur private area of certain logged on sites?

cheers ...

 

Not quite. In the past (a few weeks ago) my igoogle page would sign me in automatically, or never terminate the session. All of a sudden im seeing this new behavior.

No. i have yet to reinstall ff3. If i do reinstall will my profile/passwords/plugins remain intact?

 

That's wrong. If you select "Remember me" while logging in, like he did, the next time you visit that website, it'll log you in directly, because it puts a Cookie in your PC with whose help it logs you in the next time automatically. Just take this website for example, I don't have to login everytime I visit it, I just login once, ask it to remember me, and I'm done. I can confirm this with Opera and Internet Explorer. Try it on FireFox, it'll do the same. In his case, there might be some corruption in the installation or something otherwise it'd work the same.

 

Just tried a reinstall. No luck.

I uninstalled, while keeping personal data (profiles etc), then ran ccleaner and cleaned out my registry. Installed again. Same issue

 

I think then it's Opera time.

 

I have this problem with Yahoo not keeping me logged in and Google not remembering my preference to show 100 search results. I read the yahoo problem has to do with security, but I wish I could fix it.

 

I've had the same problem creep up on me every once in a while on Firefox 3. My desktops still use firefox 2 and they don't have that issue. It's random too. I'll stay logged in here for about 12 hours and then I'll have to sign it to reply. I haven't quite nailed down the cause.

 

I have run into this issue a couple of times and to fix it I just completely delete all cookies that have been created by the site in question, and then log in again, and all it well again.

To delete the cookies, I use a combination of FireBug and FireCookie, but there may be easier ways to only delete a single site's cookies.