Odd Firefox 11 problem

Baz · Apr 15, 2012, 20:51:46

just stumbled across this by chance Rik

in Flash Player Settings Manager/Advanced tab/Browsing Data and Settings section then the Delete All button is a tick box for Delete all site data and settings.

I know its flash player but might that be it

Rik · Apr 15, 2012, 23:27:17

Thanks, Baz.

kinmel · Apr 16, 2012, 07:48:22

Rik

Is the box at the bottom of Cookie Culler's options page had the "tick" flipped from your own preference ?

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 09:58:46

No, it's still unchecked, Alan.

Steve · Apr 16, 2012, 11:14:46

By shutdown do you mean PC shutdown? If so is any firewall software doing abit of tidying up.

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 11:16:46

No, just Firefox shutdown, Steve.

armadillo · Apr 16, 2012, 15:59:33

Rik, you could go into your Firefox profiles folder and try renaming any .sqlite file with cookies in its name to something else. e.g. as .sqlite.old

Then Firefox will have to create a new one.

If it does not work, you can remove the .old from your original cookie sqlites.

This is assuming Firefox 11 uses sqlite files. I am still on Firefox 3.6!

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 17:03:52

Thanks, Dill. It appears to have changed format.

armadillo · Apr 16, 2012, 17:24:57

Odd how changes to format always make things more difficult, never easier. Remember the days when you could do your own car maintenance?

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 17:27:19

Indeed I do. I wish software designers would plan ahead and stop moving the goal posts.

kinmel · Apr 16, 2012, 17:32:22

check your firefox setting "about:config" it should contain an entry............ privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies;false Userset Boolean False

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 17:43:01

That's how it's set, Alan. Thanks.

Simon · Apr 16, 2012, 18:40:26

How do you know it's clearing the cookies, and not blocking them in the first place?

Rik · Apr 16, 2012, 23:31:21

Because they can be seen before shutdown.

Simon · Apr 17, 2012, 10:10:58

OK.

then.

Rik · Apr 17, 2012, 10:28:23

Exactly...

Simon · Apr 17, 2012, 10:31:21

They have so many updates, sooner or later, something was bound to get broken.

Rik · Apr 17, 2012, 10:32:24

Yup.

Gary · Apr 17, 2012, 10:37:43

From reading online a few people seem to be having problems with cookie culler, it seems 'cookie monster' does not have so many issues.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/ maybe this would help.

zappaDPJ · Apr 17, 2012, 10:39:13

It seems like your persistent cookies are being treated in the same manner a session cookies but I can't really see why that would happen unless you are using private browsing.

[EDIT] Or what Gary said. It may well be an add-on issue.

Rik · Apr 17, 2012, 10:40:16

Quote from: Gary on Apr 17, 2012, 10:37:43
From reading online a few people seem to be having problems with cookie culler, it seems 'cookie monster' does not have so many issues.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/ maybe this would help.

Thanks, Gary, I'll take a look. Cookie Culler is protecting the important stuff still, so I'm not sure it's that causing the problem, but there's one way to find out.

Rik · Apr 17, 2012, 10:44:05

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Apr 17, 2012, 10:39:13
It seems like your persistent cookies are being treated in the same manner a session cookies but I can't really see why that would happen unless you are using private browsing.

[EDIT] Or what Gary said. It may well be an add-on issue.

Cookie Culler is still protecting those cookies I've marked, Zap, and has no menu options, so unless it's gone rogue, it shouldn't delete anything unless I do it manually. The Firefox settings are correct too, so this is getting to be one of those "I can't explain it" issues. I'll try the Monster, if that doesn't work, it looks like the only thing left is a re-install.

Curiously, I can't work out what triggered it, and other machines are not affected, so it has to be something on this box.

Gary · Apr 17, 2012, 10:47:25

Quote from: Simon on Apr 17, 2012, 10:31:21
They have so many updates, sooner or later, something was bound to get broken.

Chrome has many updates and most of the Mozilla ones are just security and tweaks so its still pretty much as it was before, just with new numbering instead of point updates. Mozilla recently whiletlisted many apps as working with all the new versions by default now so their should be less problems. I think though the interoperability of add ons gets to be an issue though.

Rik · Apr 17, 2012, 11:06:07

Something had changed the CookieCuller 'delete all cookies on startup' in the Add-ons, options menu. I hadn't thought to look there. Sorry everyone.

zappaDPJ · Apr 17, 2012, 11:11:17

Ah well, it could have been worse. At least you didn't find your slippers in the fridge