"Log me on automatically each visit" does not work for me

simplex · Post by **simplex** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:33 pm

The topic says it all. I have cookies enabled for linuxmint.com. Nevertheless, no matter how often I activate the select box, I have to login by hand on the next session. Or how is "Log me on automatically each visit" to be understood?

S.

jimallyn · Post by **jimallyn** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:07 pm

I have never found that to work on any online forums, not on several different computers, running several different operating systems. I gave up on it years ago. I also found that most forums will log you out if you are inactive for any length of time, sometimes as little as 10 or 15 minutes.

Reorx · Post by **Reorx** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 4:54 pm

jimallyn wrote:I have never found that to work on any online forums, not on several different computers, running several different operating systems. I gave up on it years ago. I also found that most forums will log you out if you are inactive for any length of time, sometimes as little as 10 or 15 minutes.

My experience has been exactly the opposite! That feature works for me on every forum I visit and it has been working (at least) ever since I converted to Mint "full time" about 4 years ago... curious...

(I have no explanation as to why our experiences are different)

Shryp · Post by **Shryp** » Thu Sep 17, 2015 9:37 pm

Has to be something with cookies. Something is clearing your browser cookies. It could be the way your browser is configured, an ad on you are using or some kind of privacy program.

simplex · Post by **simplex** » Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:10 am

Shryp wrote:Has to be something with cookies. Something is clearing your browser cookies. It could be the way your browser is configured, an ad on you are using or some kind of privacy program.

I use CookieMonster, but have set it to allow cookies from linuxmint.com (all cookies, not only session cookies). (?)

Reorx · Post by **Reorx** » Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:23 pm

Simplex;

All your "customizations" for FireFox reside in your FF profile which resides in the home folder for each user. The name of the folder is .mozilla. The dot a the beginning of the name makes the folder hidden. You can see the folder in your file manager by pressing Ctrl+h (toggles hidden file/folder "visibility").

As a simple experiment:
1) Close FF
2) Open your file manager; press Ctrl+h; rename the .mozilla folder to .mozilla-simplex
3) Open FF. When FF opens and .mozilla does not exist, it will create a "default" .mozilla folder (with no customization).
4) Using FF, navigate to the Mint forums and log in with the automatic login option selected... Then close FF...
5) Re start FF and navigate to the Mint forums again - does the automatic login work? If so, you can safely assume the problem is in you configuration somewhere... now all you have to do is find/fix it!

Note: to get back to your current configuration, rename the .mozilla folder to .mozilla-test and then rename the .mozilla-simplex folder to .mozilla - once the test folder has out lived its usefulness, you can delete it.

Post back with results...

simplex · Post by **simplex** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:33 am

Reorx wrote: 2) Open your file manager; press Ctrl+h; rename the .mozilla folder to .mozilla-simplex

That was a wonderful idea, and I am little bit ashamed that it did not come to my own mind (and I know how to use the command line). You are absolutely right: With a fresh .mozilla folder, I am logged in each time I visit forums.linuxmint.org in a Firefox session, as long as I do not explicitly log out.

What to do now? Recursively grep .mozilla for the string "linuxmint.org"?

Thank you,
S.

Reorx · Post by **Reorx** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 8:23 am

Change back to use .mozilla-simplex and look In FF > Preferences > Privacy, what is "History" set to? Mine is set to remember history...

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simplex · Post by **simplex** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 4:27 am

So is mine...

BTW: The following exchanges of .mozilla <-> .mozilla-simplex somehow destroyed all my FF data. Fortunately, I could restore everything via synchronizations of FFs on on my other machines:

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$ mv .mozilla/ .mozilla-simplex
$ mv .mozilla-simplex .mozilla
$ mv .mozilla/ .mozilla-simplex
$ mv .mozilla-simplex .mozilla

But I think I got it: It was the add-on "Better Privacy" that somehow messed the cookies. After disabling it, I am logged in each time I visit... So I shall mark this thread as solved.

Reorx · Post by **Reorx** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:55 am

I use the file manager > right click > select rename route and have never had a problem...

All 4 commands do basically the same thing - rename a folder... yet 2 commands contain a forward slash (/) and 2 don't - why the difference?

simplex · Post by **simplex** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 5:15 am

It was copy&paste from a post. But after nearly 30 years of Unix, there should be no difference between

move abc/ somewhere
and
move abc somewhere

given that abc is a folder.

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