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Can't keep wikipedia logged in on firefox
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Description

Recently I encountered a problem, in firefox can not keep wikipedia login status

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open firefox
  2. Enter the url of a wikipedia.org in the address bar, such as https://zh.wikipedia.org or https://en.wikipedia.org
  3. wikipedia is logged out
  4. Click "Login", enter the account and password, check "Keep me logged in", enter the 2FA code, the login is successful
  5. Opening wikipedia in other languages is also a login state, and opening other wikimedia project websites is also a login state
  6. Close firefox
  7. Open firefox again, repeat step 2, wikipedia is logged out
  8. If you open a non-wikipedia wikimedia project website (such as Commons, wikisource, etc.), you are logged in. That is, only wikipedia is logged out

Browser version: Firefox 102.0

Chrome doesn't have this problem.

Event Timeline

Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jul 5 2022, 7:39 PM

Does the problem still happen if you start Firefox in Safe Mode? (Safe Mode disables add-ons, extensions and themes, hardware acceleration and some JavaScript stuff in order to exclude some possible reasons for problems.) See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
Does this also happen with a new and empty profile? See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems#w_6-create-a-new-firefox-profile

If it does in both cases, please see and follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug/Login_problems and report back here. Thanks!

Shizhao claimed this task.

After clearing cookies the login works fine

JJMC89 changed the task status from Resolved to Invalid.Jul 7 2022, 3:48 AM
JJMC89 removed Shizhao as the assignee of this task.