488644 - Password Saved but Google WILL NOT stay logged in

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 470578

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Catherine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8

Personal Google account/settings will NOT stay logged on if browser session is closed like it use to, despite the fact that Firefox has the login and password saved AND I checked GOOGLE's "remember this computer box."  It always kept me logged in until I updated firefox to version 3.0.8.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Close all browser screens & reopen a new session
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Expected Results:  
Kept me logged in.  I have to log in EVERY time i open a new browser session.  This is most annoying since I have my google screen as my home page!!!!

Google's pop-up box appears to "set up personal theme & what you want to see settings---open an account). Don't know if that has anything to do with it.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

Others at http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/closing_firefox_logs_me_out_of_everything
found the advice useful.
Apparently there exists privacy/security/cleaning software that thinks it can safely manipulate the Firefox cookies.sqlite file, but just corrupts it instead.
This is likely a dupe of a bug already filed.