Computer trivia

There has been a very common complaint since the release of Firefox 3 about the browser logging out of already authenticated sessions and not logging into the approved websites automatically. This problem was not existent in the Firefox 2. Not only after restarting the browser, but Firefox 3 also logs you out of the website after a certain period of time.

The most obvious place where you can find a solution for this is to check if the cookies are enabled and allowed by the browser. However, this is not a solution as Firefox will log you out even all the cookies are present and allowed. There are many reasons cited for this abnormal behavior like the way Firefox is quit, plug-ins etc.

Here I present the solution I found and that worked for me. But I’m not sure if this will work for everyone.

I read somewhere on the Internet the files in which Firefox stores cookies are getting corrupted when it is upgraded from version 2 to version 3.  The cookies were stored in cookies.txt in the older version and in cookies.sqlite in the newer version and this transfer seems to be corrupted. I deleted both these files and started all over again and this has solver my problem,  though this means that I have to start from scratch logging into all the sites manually once. But that was only once and now my browser logs me in automatically.

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