Firefox 3 does not stay logged in

[agaudio]

This is odd. I am a frequent user of Google services, so I often use the function "Remember me" when logging into a Google service. However, it seems that about once a day, this setting is forgotten by the Firefox 3 browser and I have to log in again. Even odder is that this problem does not seem to affect Firefox 3 on my other (Windows) computer. Seems to me the problem should be cookie related, but if I pull up the Google cookie, I can see it is years before it is supposed to expire.

Same thing happens for the RememberTheMilk Web site.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

[Exsecrabilus]

You don't happen to clear cookies when you clear your private data, do you?

[SpenceMakesSense]

this happens to me too. For me its with Xanga, Myspace, and gmail but not for the ubuntu forums.

[yello_ubu]

Same problem here. I pretty much find that all sites with a 'remember me' option don't. I don't have personal data cleared on quitting FF.

[b5baxter]

I am experiencing this problem with Netvibes and mail.yahoo.com

Firefox 3 Beta seemed to work fine. Firefox 3 Final doesn't.

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[agaudio]

Hmmm... interesting that I am not alone with this problem. I am not clearing personal data either when I close. And I just noticed some odd behavior. If I click on my CheckGmail icon up by the clock, the browser opens into Gmail no problem. And then all the other Google services are logged in. I guess that's not surprising, as CheckGmail probably submits the password when it opens the browser, thus logging me into all the Google services. Also, if I open directly into Hotmail via Pidgin, and then go to my homepage (Google News), I appear to be logged in. Now, that is a little odder, since these two services have nothing to do with each other....

[agaudio]

I think I may have discovered something and I am curious if anyone else experiences the same thing. My home page in Firefox is Google News. Usually, but not always, when I clean start the browser, I am not logged in - despite having selected "Remember me". However, if I simply click the refresh button for the page, then I am logged in. Somehow, it seems Firefox is not quite getting there when it loads the page the first time (something to do with how Firefox loads?) but when I refresh, whatever the problem was seems to have cleared itself up.

Can anyone else confirm this behavior?

[myand]

For me the inability to save logged-in sessions was caused by Torbutton. There are a lot of complaints concerning this already on Torbutton's Add-ons page.

[agaudio]

Odd. I don't use the Torbutton extension, but your post got me thinking about extensions in general. I realized that this problem showed up when I upgraded to Hardy - and thus Firefox 3, and that it might very well be a problem with some extension that wasn't fully insync with the new Firefox installation. I went in and disabled ALL of my extensions and checked. Sure enough, I stay logged in now. Then I went back and enabled each extension, one at a time, restarting after each enabling and checking to see if I stay logged in. The funny thing is that I stayed logge din after reenabling every extension. Now I have all my extensions enabled and I stay logged in. I am not sure what happened really, but perhaps one of the extensions I kept when upgrading to Firefox 3 needed to be "reset"?

Anyhow, I would suggest that anyone else who has this problem try out the procedure above to see if it helps solve the problem. I will keep an eye on things and report back if the problem returns.

[agaudio]

Nope. Problem returned. It worked well for a whole, but then the problem returned that I am not logged into my Google service when I start the browser with Google News as the homepage. But then I press refresh and I am logged in. How frustrating!!!