FYI - login cookies

[unixronin]

LiveJournal appears to have just reset login cookies again.  If you think you're logged in, check and make sure you still are.

Comments

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

For all the times you've posted this, it's never lost my cookies.
Perhaps your browser is complicit in this matter?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It seems it's not consistent in how it behaves. Some people seem to get their login cookies reset every week. Some can go a month or two at a time. Some just seem to go on forever. Mine seem to get reset about once or twice a year, usually just after something at LiveJournal has changed in a significant way, which leads me to assume — perhaps incorrectly — that LiveJournal is doing something to reset them.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

When my wife still used IE, she complained of cookie resets at least once a week. Since switching to Firefox, only twice (both seemingly correlated with upgrades on her system).

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've never used Intarweb Exploiter when I could avoid it. And in fact, since (a) discovering windizupdate.com and (b) ditching Comcast (the only service vendor I used who had an ONLY-works-in-IE website), I no longer ever have to use it at all. I've been using Firefox since it first came out.




Of course, cumulative OS bitrot is always a possibility. It's long past time I did a complete OS reinstall-and-refresh on this machine. I just wish I had a spare machine (of comparable performance) I could bring up in parallel and just migrate the user accounts to ... it's so much less painful doing it that way.