Firefox at it again?

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 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.

Nope, no other processes.

> 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.

I am choosing the History > Restore Previous Session option after 
restarting.  When closing with the [X], cookies are restored when I do 
this.  When closing with File > Quit, cookies are not restored when I 
restore the previous session.

I don't have Firefox automatically restore the previous session, but I 
guess there is a preference for that?

 	Andy