firefox set to delete cookies on exit, but doesn't. I have all instances of it closed, also set to 'show my homepage' when launched.
Opens to my chosen homepage, then I go to gmail and find my account info there. I manually delete the cookies, close the browser, open it again and now when I navigate to gmail, no account info. version: 27.0.1 How can I get FF to clear these cookies for me, like it once did? Thanks
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Try go to Tools >> Options >> Privacy, in the option Firefox will change to Use custom settings for history , click on Show cookies, propably there is a google folder, delete it then clear your recent history:
Restart your Firefox and try access your account
It is possible that the cookies are saved in the sessionstore.js file as part of the session data if you leave tabs open when you close Firefox.
Are you closing all open tabs?
You can set the browser.sessionstore.privacy_level pref to 2 on the about:config page to prevent storing cookies as session data.
It is possible that the cookies.sqlite file that stores the cookies is corrupted if clearing cookies doesn't work.
Rename (or delete) cookies.sqlite (cookies.sqlite.old) and delete other present cookies files like cookies.sqlite-journal in the Firefox profile folder in case the file cookies.sqlite got corrupted.
Folks, the idea is to be able to clear cookies WITHOUT closing Firefox and all its windows.
Yeah, we can clear cookies by closing Firefox, we know that.
I've gone through the cookies.sqlite route several times and that doesn't fix the problem.