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Getting logged out of websites

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I am having to log in to websites I visit regularly, sometimes several times a day. This is new. The system remembers my passwords though I have to log in every time I visit the site, including my homepage.

I am having to log in to websites I visit regularly, sometimes several times a day. This is new. The system remembers my passwords though I have to log in every time I visit the site, including my homepage.

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Detail like websites remembering you and log you in automatically is stored in cookies, so make sure you aren't clearing important cookies.

You can use these steps to make a website recognize and remember you.

  • create a cookie allow exception with the proper protocol (https:// or http://) to make a website remember you

You can check that you aren't clearing important cookies.

  • using "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" to clear cookies keeps cookies with an allow exception
    in 102+ version toggling this setting makes changes to the "Clear history when Firefox closes" settings and those settings prevail
  • using "Clear history when Firefox closes" in Firefox 102+ honors exceptions and keeps cookies with an allow exception, previous versions removed all cookies

Make sure to keep the "Site settings".

  • clearing "Site settings" clears exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, and software installation and exceptions for passwords and other website specific data
  • Settings -> Privacy & Security
    Cookies and Site Data: "Manage Exceptions"
  • Settings -> Privacy & Security
    Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history":
    [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" -> Settings

If clearing cookies doesn't help, it is possible that the cookies.sqlite file in the Firefox profile folder that stores the cookies got corrupted.

  • rename/remove cookies.sqlite (cookies.sqlite.old) and when present delete cookies.sqlite-shm and cookies.sqlite-wal in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed in case cookies.sqlite got corrupted.

You can use the button on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).

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In case this applies to you, there's a bug in Firefox version 110* that deletes all cookies when you only want to clear your cookies and other history for a specified time period (such as the last hour). This will be fixed in an upcoming Firefox version.

*Bug 1816279 Firefox 110 Forget the last x time deletes all cookies (see Bugzilla Etiquette before adding bug report comments)

If you have selected "cookies" in your Clear History settings, remove cookies from the list of items to clear as a workaround. See Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox for details.