question for Firefox pros

Karlis Abolins · Post by **Karlis Abolins** » 10 Oct 2004 3:44 am

I am trying out Firefox and have been stymied by the cookies issue in regards to this forum. At first, all of the forums topics kept showing up as new or unread (in the left margin) even though the links on the ones I read showed that they had been followed. I looked at the cookies settings and found two sets of cookies. I assume that one set was IE and one was Firefox. I deleted both sets of cookies and now it works well except for when I return after looking at the first area (usually events). Now all of the topics are clear. Any ideas on your settings that would fix this. I want to give Firefox a fair tryout but its not got the highest marks at this time.

Karlis

Howard Parker · Post by **Howard Parker** » 10 Oct 2004 6:32 am

The browser has worked flawlessly for me since it was released.

Just a reminder that you must enter the forum at http://www.steelguitarforum.com/ to work properly.

I just checked my options and only the main cookie option is enabled.

I seem to have the following forum cookies:

All under "steelguitarforum.com":

lastlogin
SessionLoginDT
LastLoginDT
SessionLogin

Hope this helps.

HowardP

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Les Pierce · Post by **Les Pierce** » 10 Oct 2004 10:07 pm

Me too. Haven't figured out why, yet, even though I've tried. I still use IE when I browse the Forum because of it.

Les

Bruce Wutzke · Post by **Bruce Wutzke** » 13 Oct 2004 4:02 am

I have the same cookies listed as you do Howard and I still am showing everything as unopened.

Jim Phelps · Post by **Jim Phelps** » 13 Oct 2004 10:18 pm

.[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 17 November 2004 at 07:46 PM.]

Les Pierce · Post by **Les Pierce** » 14 Oct 2004 7:14 pm

Hi, Jim,

My particular problem is that Firefox always shows all of the threads as having been read, right from the start.

Not a big problem, really, but still, I wish I knew why.

Les

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John Fabian · Post by **John Fabian** » 15 Oct 2004 2:12 am

The answer may be in how the forum code is written instead of your browser settings.

Maybe b0b can look into this.
[This message was edited by John Fabian on 15 October 2004 at 03:12 AM.]

William Peters · Post by **William Peters** » 17 Oct 2004 2:20 pm

Firefox has worked perfectly for me until I installed XP service pack 2. Now, the forum doesn't set any cookies, and the threads are not marked as new, and they are not marked as read either. Cookies are enabled, they just stopped working.

Bill

Bob Lawrence · Post by **Bob Lawrence** » 17 Oct 2004 8:43 pm

I have the same problem.

I also have SP2. I did import (under file in Firefox) all of Internet Explorer data. It helped remove most of the Red folders but won't update the new data.

Here is the info from IE for the cookie file for the steel forum:

steelguitarforum.com TRUE /cgi-bin/ FALSE (XXXXNUmber blocked by me) lastLogin xxxxx(XXXXNUmber blocked by me).20?

steelguitarforum.com TRUE /cgi-bin/ FALSE (XXXXNUmber blocked by me) LastLoginDT 10-17-2004%2008%3A50%20PM

I don't know why FireFox won't update it. Everything is enabled(relating to cookies) on my PC.

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William Peters · Post by **William Peters** » 20 Oct 2004 2:09 pm

Bob,

I finally got mine to work again. I had to go into the control panel -> Internet Options, and reset all the defaults. I am not sure exactly what was the offending items, but installing SP2 changed something in there.

Bill