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newly protected cookies not protected

Asked by David Butler

I'm a long-time user, currently running Firefox 52.5.0 ESR on an XP machine with CookieKeeper v19.3.1.

For at least the past year, any cookies I try to protect from new domains are deleted when I close the browser. Sort of. Allow me to explain.

When I bookmark a new site, such as a bank, that requires persistent cookies, I set CookieKeeper to "Allow" the new domain so it gets added to the Permissions list. Then I open the Folder Tree and protect the cookies that I want to save, which adds them to the "Protections" list. However, when I close Firefox, the folder for the newly protected cookies is deleted.

Subsequent visits to the site will re-create the folder, and when a protected cookie is written, it appears with the LOCK icon, but this defeats the purpose / benefit of saving the cookie. Every time I close Firefox, the folder and cookies are deleted, even though the domain remains in the permissions list and the protected cookies are still listed in the Protections list. Strange.

As a result, I can only use the "stay signed on" feature for websites that were previously protected before this behavior started. I'm guessing it was triggered by a CK upgrade but since I rarely need to protect cookies from new sites, I didn't realize it was broken for many months.

Interestingly, I'm running Firefox version 55 with CookieKeeper on a Linux machine and it doesn't have this problem. In fact, with FF55, sites with protected cookies don't need to be first white-listed in the Permissions list. If this was a deliberate change to CK, it may be a clue to what's happening on my older XP machine.

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David Butler (ginahoy) said : 		#2

I revised my question for clarity. It's a bit hard to explain.

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Bump

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question is still outstanding

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 Please reopen. Issue not resolved.

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still pending

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still not resolved

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