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Closing Firefox logs me out of everything.
Every time I close out firefox it logs me out of everything. This problem only started recently. My cookie preferences are correct. Any help?
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Inappropriate?Click the [+] to reveal the 5 causes, I suspect a corrupt cookies.sqlite file
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That did it. I closed out Firefox, renamed it cookiesBACKUP.sqlite, and everything is back to normal.
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Inappropriate?This fixed it for me as well.
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Inappropriate?where can i rename it to "cookiesBACKUP"?1 Comment Add a comment
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1. Locate your profile folder - it's a randomly named subfolder of the
directory that opens when you hold down the "windows logo" key on your keyboard
and press R then in that Run dialog paste %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
and hit enter.
2. Ensure Firefox is closed using File -> Exit from menu, and check your Task
Manager processes tab to be sure there is no firefox.exe listed.
3. In the subfolder you found in step 1 find the file named cookies.sqlite and rename it to cookiesBACKUP.sqlite
4. Restart Firefox, log into your sites.
5. Restart firefox again and revisit the sites to see if it logs you in
automatically (if you have chosen "remember me" or other option on the sites.)
The reason the cookies.sqlite database storage of your cookies gets corrupted is because of "cleaning" or "scanning" of tracking cookies done by security/privacy/ad killing software running on your system.
Find the settings for that function in that other software and disable it. The recommended Firefox add-on for better directly managing your cookies is CS lite. -
Inappropriate?I never had the trouble before. I'm using Firefox 3.5.1 and I've checked the boxes "remember me" on the websites and Firefox preferences are set up to to keep my passwords.
But since I'm no geek and on a Mac I don't understand the above explanation. Someone does have an easy solution? thanks!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?For Mac OSX these replace steps 1 and 2 in the above reply
1a. Open the Terminal - you can do so from the utilities folder in your applications Screencast Tutorial
1b.. Into the Terminal type:
~/Library/Firefox/profiles/
1c. Using the screencast tutorial as a guide, open the randomly named subfolder of that directory.
2. From the menus in the Firefox window click on
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Thanks I'll try
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Inappropriate?There is a easiest way on Mac:
Users --> Library ---> Application support---> Firefox---> profiles --->neiezxu3.default---> find the file named cookies.sqlite and rename it to cookiesBACKUP.sqlite.
Then everything is back to normal
