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Safari losing cookies, forgetting logins

Suddenly Safari is losing all the logins for sites. Even though these sites have the 'remember me' boxes checked, every day I have to re-login to dozens of sites and forums. When this happens, before I start logging in, I check the cookies in prefs and there are zero cookies stored.

What's up with that?

15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 14, 2008 4:12 AM

109 replies

Feb 24, 2009 11:59 AM in response to David Turley1

HUZZAH!

It appears that the new Safari 4 beta fixed the problem for me. All the sites that I was having problems with now work correctly.

- Chris

Feb 25, 2009 7:28 PM in response to Chris Brummel

I am having this problem even with the Safari 4 beta. Still unsolved for me.

Frozo

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Feb 27, 2009 11:44 AM in response to Mark C. Dorison

Yep, me too. It seemed to be fixed on my laptop prior to Safari 4, and has ben working after installing. However, now my Pro is doing it all the time ever since I installed Safari 4, where it was perfect before the install. Something very strange about the inconsistency of this issue.

Liebrand

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Mar 16, 2009 3:47 AM in response to David Turley1

Has anyone got any more news on this? I'm still having this problem, even with the nightly webkit builds.

Another issue that might or might not be related is that I also seem to loose "memory" of wireless networks. I have a few that do not broadcast their SSID like the one in our office. Every now and then my macbook air simply wont remember the connection (even though it IS in the list of networks to remember), and I have to manually connect to it.

These two problems (safari login cookies and wireless networks) suggest to me that the problem is indeed with the keychain. I've fixed permissions on my drive, and still no luck. But both of these systems use the keychain, and it would make sense that if they can't access it, they can't connect/remember login details...

/Cheers,
Jelte

Safari losing cookies, forgetting logins