D H said:Cause of the problem: The site went through an upgrade Wednesday. Your stored cookies are confusing the upgraded software.
The solution: First log out from PhysicsForums, clear all of your cookies from this site, and close your browser. Next reopen your browser and log back into PhysicsForums. If you select the "Remember me" box during the login it will once again remember you.
yungman said:I have the Windows 7 and I don't know where the cookies are. I use Firefox.
dacruick said:What browsers are all y'all using? I'm on Chrome and the problem went away on its own after a couple sign ins.
ArcanaNoir said:I had the problem with chrome and safari, but not with IE.
ArcanaNoir said:in firefox, Go to tools, then options, then the privacy tab, then "show cookies" (on the mid-left), then either remove all cookies, or choose the folder for physics forums and remove those cookies.
About halfway down this page are some instructions thay may be able to help http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/2317-Internet-Explorer-9-Managing-Cookies-and-Cache-Delta² said:Where do i find the cookie folder of Internet Explorer 9?
I found a folder with many files like cookie:xxxx but couldn't find anything that xxxx has physicsforums in it.
Sankaku said:Just some feedback as of today:
Using Opera 11.52 under Kubuntu 11.04
I still have to sign in pretty much every 10 minutes.
Yes, I have emptied cookies, restarted the browser, etc.
It was functioning fine before the update...
Thoughts?
Edit: I just tested - It happens for me in FireFox as well.
Greg Bernhardt said:Are you checking the "remember me" box?
Bingo.Greg Bernhardt said:Start paying attention to whether the link has www or not. Let me know.
Greg Bernhardt said:Just changed a setting. Any better?
Sankaku said:It seems to be working a bit better in Firefox, but it isn't my primary browser so I wouldn't notice any problems outside of poking around for 10 minutes.
Why do I get the pessimistic worry that in 30mins we'll all be kicked out and never allowed back...Greg Bernhardt said:In 30min I will be changing a setting that will reset everyone's cookies. This will essentially log everyone out. I am hoping this is the step that works! Sorry for the inconvenience!
Ryan_m_b said:Why do I get the pessimistic worry that in 30mins we'll all be kicked out and never allowed back...
Greg Bernhardt said:In 30min I will be changing a setting that will reset everyone's cookies. This will essentially log everyone out. I am hoping this is the step that works! Sorry for the inconvenience!
AlephZero said:Well, that worked, in the sense that I had to log in again.
But for the FIRST time since this thread was started, it then logged me off by the time I had finished writing a fairly long post.
AlephZero said:FWIW something was screwing up PF between about 23:00 GMT 13 Dec and 01:00 14 Dec. Many attempts to open threads timed out. A couple of times I got messages saying "waiting for some page to do with viglink", other times just "IE8 can't display this page".
The same thing happened again a couple of times at about 20:00 14 Dec, and after that problem went away but I then got logged off...
Greg Bernhardt said:So it didn't work? You are still getting logged off since a couple hours ago?
Greg Bernhardt said:II am hoping this is the step that works! Sorry for the inconvenience!
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