475355 - firefox does not retain cookies/stay signed in to gmail after closing program

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 470578

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bud Vana]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Both facebook and gmail (the only sites that I visit that allow continued session to session logged-in-ed-ness) do not remain logged in despite my checking the box that reads "stay logged in" (or whatever it really says).  I have enabled cookies, and go so far as to allow google.com and facebook.com in the security/privacy section.
  This problem did not exist before I cleared my history, cookies and temp internet files about a week ago (c. 1/19/08).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
does not stay logged in - brings up the initial login every time

Expected Results:  
stay logged in - take you directly to gmail inbox or facebook home page

I tried to install firefox on top of my current version, but it did not correct the problem.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Can you try this in safe mode http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode and on a new profile http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

Comment 2

[Ben Guthrie]

this is reported by a number of folks at mozillazine
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1082475&p=5842855#p5842855

folks have tried new profiles, et cetera.  nothing seems to work.

Comment 3

[Ben Guthrie]

I would add that's it's pretty much everything.  yahoo, digg, slashdot, salon ( particularily annoying because I get a loud popup video because it doesn't recognize my premium status )  and the list goes on.  something is blasting away the cookies.  I can't use my bank of america account at all.  it doesn't recognize the nightlies, so I would use mozilla 3.0.4 to set the cookies and then use the nightly.  no more.

I'm forced to fall back to  3.0.4 and forgo the nightlies until this is rectified.

Comment 4

[Ben Guthrie]

I'm AOK now. I renamed cookies.sqlite to cookies.sqlite.old which forced firefox to rebuild it. The new one is much smaller, I might add: 99KB vs 963KB. One might as well just delete it unless you're curious about the relative sizes. The sqlite ( I keep wondering what the file name represents ) evidently became corrupted. I did NOT touch the cookies file or any other file.

I've closed/reopened/rebooted/upgraded numerous times now and all seems to be fine.

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

I'll dupe this against bug 470578 because that bug is meant to fix the case of a corrupted cookies.sqlite.