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Firefox started signing me out of websites

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Mika
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Firefox has just started to sign me out of websites such as GMail whenever I restart it. I have already check my settings and I have tried to have the "Clear history when Firefox closes" setting unset as well as having it set and then having all the associated settings cleared. Both ways I keep having to login again. When logging in to GMail Firefox is also asking for a USB security key for a two factor authentication which I have never used and never set up in any software.

Firefox has just started to sign me out of websites such as GMail whenever I restart it. I have already check my settings and I have tried to have the "Clear history when Firefox closes" setting unset as well as having it set and then having all the associated settings cleared. Both ways I keep having to login again. When logging in to GMail Firefox is also asking for a USB security key for a two factor authentication which I have never used and never set up in any software.

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cor-el
cor-el
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This could be about a bug that can be related to a corrupted cookies.sqlite database. You can check this in the Manage Data dialog whether it shows that the last use of cookies is many years in the future.

  • /questions/1410735 Firefox update from 111.0.1 to 112 set the dates of most cookies into the far future and keeps doing it
Mika
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Thank you cor-el, that seems to be the case I'm facing. Most of the cookies in the list are last accessed February 17 2036. I surely wouldn't have found this very easily myself, so thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction and to the other question.