I noticed this new behaviour today -- I logged in, posted a Meditation, then used the same tab to go somewhere else. Half an hour later, I decided to come back to the site .. and I had to log in again.

So, just now, I visited the site, logged in, then opened a new tab (in the same browser window), and once again I was prompted to log in again. That's odd -- has anyone else noticed this behaviour? I'm using Firefox 136.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re: Login to the site doesn't stick
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 19, 2025 at 20:35 UTC

    Hm. Did you check the save me a permanent cookie, cowboy! / Remember me checkbox?

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      Well, this is interesting. I opened up the Storage tab of the Web Developer tools after I'd logged in, and could see the cookie from perlmonks.org -- there's a single key, 'userpass', with a hashed value. Cool.

      Then I opened another tab, opened up the developer tools to the same Storage tab, and again navigated to perlmonks.org. I was prompted to log in -- but the cookie for the site was still there in Storage -> Cookies. I just compared all of the fields, and they appear to be identical.

      So .. I don't know what's going on. I think I may try the same thing with Chrome on my MBP.

      Update from Chrome and MBP: Chrome on OSX works fine. This may be a Firefox issue.

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

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      i never needed this either. For me, on firefox, the cookies stick over the different tabs (unless a private browsing session)? developer tools is your friend.

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      Thanks -- I don't think I've ever needed that checkbox turned on before, hence my confusion.

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re: Login to the site doesn't stick
by talexb (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2025 at 13:54 UTC

    And yesterday, things went back to normal .. surfed to perlmonks.org and was shown as logged in. Same thing this morning. Same Firefox session as before.

    Weird.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

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