[quote who="-=XX=-Nephilim" reply="19" id="2098965"]I pretty much stopped using FireFox...

It is full of bugs of various kinds which makes me puzzled why so many people use it and thinks its something special...

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test, weird, if I use the standard quote feature on reply #19 the code for quote breaks.

I have no idea where to report it though

Check Privacy and Security options under Tools>Options, if they are set to accept cookies and to remember passwords.

Please report the problem to Mozilla.

PS- Now I got a friend in Firefox that too can confuzzle you like me.

I had the exact problem, with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. I simply unistalled them and installed Flock, browser that is almost the same as Firefox. Also I noticed that uses smaller amount of RAM. Works fine for me.

It isn't a FF problem. All browsers, when opened (not closed) delete cookies. It isn't a browser setting. Something else is afoot...

Is your date and time properrties configured correctly? Sometimes it happens with different date and time. I had read it somewhere.

Interesting the amount of dislike for FF on this thread. I've been using FF for years now and while it does have it's downs from time to time I enjoy all the addons that make surfing the internet a lot better for me. IE, not only did it not give any kind of addons or interesting features but there were times it would not even close after hitting the X. I honestly have not tried other browsers besides FF but I am very happy with it and to believe that FF is perfect or something like that is to be naive. It's obvious FF will have bugs from time to time, but that's no reason to put it down like it's a copy of IE. As far as I'm concerned I'm glad Microsoft is considering allowing IE to be eliminated from Windows 7.

Did this little problem truly make everyones life that much harder? It was only a minor annoyance.

While OT, this is slightly incorrect. ie8 will still be there, just not active, and you'll really have to drill down to 'deactivate' it.

If, that is, you believe it's really deactivated.

Is that FF's memory...or your OWN that's shot?...

It may be usefull from time to time to erase all temporary files and a browser cache. Especially if one has problems with the browse. 3rd party tools may do this too. Be aware however of the anonymizers! They are a usefull tool somewhere, however not if you want to save your login information.

Quite the reverse. It's actually forcing me to remember my login details!

True, still, that's better than nothing.

Google Chrome

Not so much dislike of FF as dislike of their rabid fans and excuse makers. FF is far from perfect. I use it, and IE7, and chrome... for different things. But I recognize that FF is very buggy...

There has been tons of memory leaks in FF2 that were always quashed by rabid fans saying things like "there is a cahcing feature and you just don't understand what a mem leak is"... then FF3 comes about and one of its features is "over 300 memory leaks fixed"... FF still leaks memory out the wazoo btw.

Amen.

FF using a gig and a half of RAM when it only had 3 tabs open was...not my idea of a good time.

True, but it's a lot better now than it was in 2 or 1.

I upgraded from 4 to 8GB of ram... its so cheap right now and I don't wanna bother with it.

FF3 does not leak much. However it does not end sessions of the closed tabs. It has the advantage they could be easily revived, if one accidentaly closes them. However it consumes memory. I prefer it this way - a lot of memory is no problem nowadays. What I dislike on FF3 is Stardock forums do not work properly with this browser.

This is now fixed. I restored Windows from back-up to a version before Tuesday's update. All is well again.

Typical how Windows Update solves one problem but creates others.

I don't have any forum problems with FF3, and with four tabs open it's stable at around 92Mb memory...

And that's why I have Windows Updates disabled

Glad you fixed it, man.

Could this be a conspiracy  by Microsoft to get users to abandon XP by breaking it with funky updates?

Nah, that can't be it.