Форум поддержки Firefox

Everything was working fine under Win8Pro Release Preview and FF (17?)...

Did full Win7Pro SP1 x64 install.

Installed FF 18.0.1, no add-ons; all defaults except turned on "do not track" and changed cookie handling as described:

Logging in to my Hotmail/Outlook.com account (MS upgraded me to Outlook.com in the middle of my troubleshooting) I can access my Hotmail People (Contacts) without difficulty.

I change FF Options -> Privacy -> "Keep cookies until" from "they expire" to "ask every time."

When I go to "Hotmail People", I click on "Allow" for every instance I'm asked to set or modify a cookie.

The content of the "People" page (the contacts themselves) never loads. I just get the "please wait" circling-dots.

I return to the Hotmail "Mail" page (which still works fine, except when addressing a message).

I change FF Options -> Privacy -> "Keep cookies until" from "ask every time" to "they expire."

When I go (back) to Hotmail People, the contacts load fine.

Shouldn't the two scenarios be the same? I prefer to manually handle cookie handling, so this feature is important to me.

Thanks!

PS: With the exception of addressing in Mail; Mail, Calendar and SkyDrive all seem to work fine regardless of which cookie setting is used.

I pretty much know how to configure Firefox to "accept" or "reject" cookies. Am also aware that one can address the issue of 3rd party cookies.

I am not sure, however, if it is possible to have Firefox reject all First-Party cookies that are not "session" cookies.

In other words I don't want to accept any Third Party Cookies, and I don't want to accept any First Party cookies--unless they are "Session Only".

Can this be done?

Am using Firefox 18.0.1 and Windows 7

I read the first suggested article before posting this question, but it wasn't specific enough so I was forced to comment, "This article fails to specify use of the backed up file in the event of a system/HDD reformat." The article reveals that the profile folder name must match (match WHAT in this scenario?), but does not reveal if any of the files within the profile have that specific identification embedded in them [which might result in logical error or error messages, and failure to accomplish desired goal]. It also does not say if all I want to do is back up the cookies, whether or not will backing up cookies.sqlite and placing it in the new default profile after the system reinstallation/hard drive reformat work.

Let me get more general in the event I'm not communicating what I wish to: I don't want to use a confusing, perhaps badly-written Firefox add-on to do this. I have a few secure sites I visit that give me a really hard time when I update or reformat, like my bank and NetFlix. Both parties CLAIM that I am "attempting to access your account from a different computer," but their security protocol writers are MORONS and liars, because it is NOT a different computer; instead of storing the STATIC MAC address of my computer, which DOES identify the specific computer attempting access, they store a number of different bits of data which are VOLATILE and DYNAMIC [in cookies], and I have to go through this bullcrap of accessing my email account and entering in a verifying one-time-use code to get to my own [epithet for solid waste matter]. So, will I be able to do what I want just by manually backing up cookies.sqlite and placing it in the appropriate directory when needed? It should be a very simple matter for these idiot security experts to query systems for the MAC addresses or to get users to supply it manually (it's easy to find), but NO! That would make SENSE, be EASY, and MORE EFFECTIVELY MANAGE THE SECURE NETWORKS. My idiot bank does not even allow the use of special characters necessary for the creation of sophisticated passwords [that would take over a quintillion years to hack via a Brute Force attack].

This is not the ff remember passwords. It is the website provided login with the remember me checkbox. It has worked in the past (pre win8 and earlier versions of ff....definitely not since win8, but cannot tie directly to ff18) except when I ran ccleaner which would somehow remove the 'cookie".

I have played with all the FF options I can relate to the problem without success.

The FF remember me works, but I have to type in the user name before it will enter the password.

firefox 18.0.1 does not accept cookies when I open the online site. If I go to tools/options and click OK then the cookies are accepted and I can log on. I have keep until I close Firefox checked. This problem does not occur on other sites like AMEX for example.

I am trying to delete cookies and temporary internet files, but the top of my FIREFOX screen for Vista is blank!!! urgent that I do right now. Kay Lipton (Email removed by mod)

I was told I need to switch from internet exporer to firefox for better performance, so I did that but now what do I do? Are all my setting the same as before or do I need to start all over again?! I tried to log into my bank and it say's the computer is not regestered?! I called the bank and I was told save the cookies and that right now they are set to be deleted. I have no idea how to do this can you please help! I wish you had an 800 number so you could go through step by step. Thanks

I keep having repeated "windows delayed write failed" messages related to different files in my Firefox profile but I don't know how to solve the problem except changing the browser (but that would be quite a pity)

Hi,

I have the latest and updated FF version. Since months (and older versions), FF started to clear automatically cache every few days, even when it's properly closed. How to stop this? I have to open hundreds of sites and forums daily. I have to non-stop log in again and wait for pages to load for ages (because of cleared cache).

I'm sorry for asking this for the millionth time. I browsed every single support thread and nothing actually resolves the problem. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/935257 Nothing fits.

- No suspicious addons (I have only dictionary installed) - No viruses (checked) - No firewall or any other blocking - Everything fine in Tools, for browsing history (+ override cache management unchecked (tested with both options) - Reset doesn't help - Everything is fine and compatible in Troubleshoot - Changing value to 2 in "browser cache frequency" in about:config has nothing to do with the problem and instead prevents sites from caching new versions.

Is there anything more I can do?

Thank you

I get an error message about cookies and I don't know what to do next.

The page isn't redirecting properly

         Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
      

 This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
   cookies.

I'm planning on getting a Windows computer. However, I don't want to lose all the cookies in my Mac. Firefox sync doesn't sync cookies, and a Google search has only told me how to transfer them from Windows to Mac, not the other way around. Can anybody help me out?

Firefox is showing my cookies are off. It still won't let me log in to my email. When I got to sign into email it tells me my cookies are off. My cookies doesn't look off.

This also happens in FF 18 - cookies that are supposed to be retained are not.

I tried the SQLite Database Browser tool, but found no questionable entries like the ones outlined above.

I tried deleting site preferences - no change. Tried deleting permission.sqlite. Still no change.

What this is showing up in is my online banking. It asks you to register the computer, and supposedly puts a "secure cookie" in the browser. This no longer works - everytime I have to go through the process of asking for a new code via email. This works fine in IE, and used to in Firefox. What is odder is that if I ask it to show cookies, it shows it with an expiration of Jan. 2100. But it does not seem to be accessble to FF anymore, while it used to be. Any other ideas?

When I open my home page, ads not supported by the site pop up at the top, moving the page down so i can't read the news. In a few seconds it moves to the bottom of the page where another unwanted ad is shown. How do I get rid of them? I have already checked "Block Popup Windows". What else can I do?

i am trying to enable cookies to login to http://wordpress.com and it says to enable cookies but i don't know how.