Firefox at it again?

[Russell Beall]

I am using Firefox on the Mac.

I rarely bother to close windows by clicking the X.

I was referring to using Command-Q to completely exit the process.  This used to work.

Originally when Firefox first started having this be the default behavior I went into the preferences and check-marked options which cause the cookies and "Active Logins" to actually be deleted when I did a quit.  Today I noticed that this was no longer working and when I experiment with the settings, nothing seems to kill the cookies except outright blocking them, which of course causes sessions to fail to work in the first place.

This is new behavior as of the recent update, but maybe it only affects Mac users.

Regards,
Russ.

On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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