[SOLVED] Bug report: Firefox login
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- Scope: bug report
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I don't think I have an account on GitLab, so I'll just share this here and tag @Deimos.
It's not possible for me to log into Tildes on Firefox. I receive a "Page expired, reload and try again" error every time I try. It occurs in all cases, including:
- If I'm using a stale tab and if I open a new tab or refresh the page
- With browser extensions enabled and disabled
- In private browsing mode with no extensions enabled
- With Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on or off
- When I specifically add
https://tildes.netas an exception in my tracking preferences - When I'm not signed in or syncing data from another browser
- After I delete my Tildes password from my browser
- Even when I clear cookies/cache..
I have only tried this on Firefox desktop, but I found this Git issue from @Omnicrola describing the same problem for Firefox mobile. Some differences:
- My problem seems to happen every day of the week, not just Sundays.
- My problem does NOT resolve itself within 24 hours. I have to use a different browser like Cheome to log in.
Not experiencing this with any other website. Maybe the website/server/browser thinks I'm in a different timezone or something, as theorized in that thread, CSRF and all that, but I've been in the same place for a week or two now. If I go to Web Developer Tools I can see error messages like this:
Cookie “” has been rejected by user set permissions.
Cookie “session=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345; Max-Age=31536000; Path=/; expires=Wed, 19-Feb-2025 22:34:16 GMT; secure; HttpOnly” has been rejected by user set permissions.
Request to access cookies or storage on “https://tildes.net/login” was blocked because of custom cookie permission.
That links to this page which isn't very helpful because I've already tried that. It's possible that I have some other privacy configuration in Firefox that's screwing with Tildes, but I wouldn't know what. Wondering if anyone else has experienced this and gotten around it?
Looks like your browser is rejecting cookies based on some settings you have for for Tildes. Any chance you accidentally overrode the standard site permissions for Tildes in FireFox? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/site-permissions-panel has more info.
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Thanks, using the button shown in that article and removing the "Blocked" tag fixed my issue.
Still, I have nothing configured in Firefox that would have blocked cookies for this particular website but not other websites. I do have an add-on that blocks third-party cookies, but I disabled that for Tildes, and the issue was even happening in private browsing with all extensions disabled. In my tests I also disabled Firefox's built-in tracking protection and other security measures, including cookie blockers... and yet this issue still persisted until literally just now. Really strange.
So, problem solved, but I have no clue how exactly that setting got applied to begin with. But now I know how to get around it. Thank you for the help.
No problem. I'm glad its working. Hopefully whatever was causing the problem fixed itself permanently.
Have you tried it with a fresh Firefox profile? For me it works without problems with Firefox.
Concurring here - 0 issues on firefox or firefox android
Works for me in Firefox on Android, Debian 12, and Windows 11. In addition to a fresh profile you might also try logging in from a private window (Ctrl-Shift-P) since that will (by default) not have all of your addons loaded.