Login to the site doesn't stick

[talexb]

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.

[jdporter]

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

[talexb]

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.

[bliako]

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.

[talexb]

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

[talexb]

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.