Mac OS X (10.6.3)
Wow. I've spent countless hours trying to debug our helpdesk software, only to finally reach the conclusion that Safari was simply losing it's cookies. And then to find this thread.
Currently: Safary 5.0.5, OSX 10.6.7.
No Safari extensions installed.
The website in question only sets two cookies, both quite small (username, and 32 byte session id). However lets call it helpdesk.foo.edu, we have numerous other cookies set for foo.edu (31 at the moment). Maybe the software is confused about that?
It is not dropping cookies which are both much older, and have a much sooner expiration time.
Other odditites: NFS home directory.
Here's some questions/thoughts:
What's the largest Cookies.plist file size people are seeing? Could there be some artificial limit placed on that? Mine seems to hover around 4.5 MB.
What else typically writes to Cookies.plist besides Safari? I don't run much at all. Thunderbird, Safari, Terminal, X11 is usually everything.
My helpdesk web page reloads automatically every five minutes. Sometimes it loses the cookies while I'm doing other web browsing, but sometimes it loses them when the screen has been locked and I've been away for hours. Could there be some number-of-uses limit on cookies?
[sonofabeast, it just happened again while I was typing this].
tom
Tom --
You have placed this fascinating request for help at the very end of a year-old infamous thread here. Please copy and paste your post into a new topic in Safari. Just click the link, and it will take you directly to the right place, OK?
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/post!input.jspa?containerType=14& container=2131
(When looking at the list of threads, you will see in the box to the right under "options" to start a new discussion."
I went to the apple store and looked at this problem with one of their people. Turns out its a new feature of Safari, to NOT keep you logged into websites. AND there is no way to disable this feature. APPLE, this feature *****!!!
I hope someone is listening at APPLE!
Just wanted to say that I've been following this thread for a while and I'm STILL experiencing this problem, despite running OS 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.1. I looked in the Safari section of Apple Communities and didn't see a more updated thread with any solution. This thread should stay alive since the problem persists...
I went into apple and we reformatted my laptop. Turns out it is a feature of safari you can't turn off. The worst feature in history. I switched to Chrome.
This is an infuriating problem which still happens with Safari 5.1.3 in OS X 10.7.3.
Apple has completely dropped the ball here - after nearly two years and multiple releases of Safari, it is still a huge bug which hasn't been fixed.
blackbeardesign wrote:
I went into apple and we reformatted my laptop. Turns out it is a feature of safari you can't turn off. The worst feature in history. I switched to Chrome.
Are you serious? This is seriously not a bug, but "as designed"?!
Why on Earth would I want to get logged out of Facebook all the time on my PRIVATE computer which has a password?
Wow. Apple really messed up.
I too, am switching to Chrome.
I had the same problem for a week. after an imprtant OS update.
I called the useless call center, which kind of told me to use Firefox and also mentioned that they never check this forum. She also told me that by no mean this is a Safari feature.
But after messing with Safari a bit longer, I solved my problem by removing AdBlock extension and reinstalling it. So for all of you, maybe you could try to unactivate your extensions and see if that changes anything.
Interesting.
I don't have any extensions... I use Safari as-is
Yes, there might be more than one cause to it. Try to reset Safari and also to do a permission repair from the restore partition (even though I kind of doubt it will change anything 🙂 ). For sure, this is not a Safari feature as mine worked fine for 2 years and again OK now.
Flori72 wrote:
Yes, there might be more than one cause to it. Try to reset Safari and also to do a permission repair from the restore partition (even though I kind of doubt it will change anything 🙂 ). For sure, this is not a Safari feature as mine worked fine for 2 years and again OK now.
Had done alll that before, but thanks
Yeah, been working great since early 2000s, and now, boom! ......a big bug
and it happened few months ago, then was fixed, and then again -- boom problems after this big recent update
good to know it was also after the update. (not happy for you but it explains my situtation). How about uninstalling Safari and reinstalling it?
it happened before... like a few months ago (i remember posting about it), and then there was an update that fixed it, it seemed..
now its back in black
how do i uninstall safari on a mac?
drag and drop into the trash I would say. Like all apps. Then you can use Time Machine to reinstall it.
Doesn't using Time Machine restore what I just deleted? 😉
Safari keeps logging me out...
