Firefox at it again?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/24/12 3:28 PM, "Andrew Morgan" <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:

>I was testing using Firefox on Linux.
>
>I re-tested the same steps using Firefox 16.0.1 on Windows and the
>behavior is the same.  Closing Firefox with the [X] on the window will
>retain cookies.  Closing Firefox with File > Exit does not.

Then you probably have a window open, hidden or otherwise. If I tell it
not to restore my tabs, cookies are gone regardless of how I exit. If not,
they stay, regardless of how I exit.

You could check and see if there's a FF process running in one of the
cases.

I'm seeing the usual behavior with 16.0.1. Maybe they changed some aspect
of the history clearing options, but those are really separate and focused
on persistent state, not session state. If you restore tabs, they intend
your cookies to stay regardless of other settings, and they probably
overrode some other setting this time so that it seems to be stickier.

-- Scott