Thorium lost login sessions

Alex313031 / thorium

Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

https://thorium.rocks/

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Thorium lost login sessions #458

Open Blazzycrafter opened 10 months ago

Blazzycrafter commented 10 months ago

System Details

OS: windows 11
Thorium Version 117.0.5938.157

Problem Thorium forgets my saved logins regularly (all 2 weeks?) I know Thorium is a "privacy browser" but that's too much XD so it's probably a bug...

Blazzycrafter commented 10 months ago

ok now its more then stupid.... i did login 30 minutes ago and i am already logged out in netflix

Drakonas commented 9 months ago

I lose all local state data for random websites at times as well. Not sure the cause, but it's very annoying, especially when there's important Cookie data for certain games I use.

mezhgano commented 7 months ago

Facing exact same issue, after computer restart it loose all sessions, so i need to sign-in again in Google account and all other sites. Any workarounds here beside switching to Firefox-based browser?

cybnex commented 6 months ago

This seems to be happening to me too. Suddenly most but not all? logged in sessions are logged out.... Not always, just sometimes....

I'm using sync (with passphrase) to quite a few other computers running Thorium which might be a factor...

Perhaps related. I did at one point when running Thorium from the terminal spot a log message about decrypting failing but did not document that properly.

This is the fastest browser on my slow laptop but this might be a show stopper.

Big-ol-Bob commented 5 months ago

I lose local data for a particular web app if I restart windows. It's for an LLM, which in this case means I lose all the conversation histories. All the other tabs remain logged in though. It's one I've used for a long time on multiple OS's and multiple browsers. I don't remember this happening before, including on Thorium on my Mac or with it on Windows in the past. I have memory saver off for the sleeping tabs thing and I don't recall the last time I deleted data so I'll see if that helps. I don't use sync. Looks like I'm already two stable releases behind. v 121.0.6167.204 (Feb 2024) Windows 10

maxwowpow commented 4 months ago

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows/issues/36

assuming here anyone "using" vanilla profile without any custom flags... (yeah right).
the referenced issue mentions internal changing in cookies file path. But some ideas symptoms and solutions could apply.
if in any instance some guys have a weird hw config and on reboot machine id changes that could be the reason (I'm not an expect in how machine id is implemented).
many use luks/vc anyway (I do) so probably disabling chromium encryption could be an option to try.

IMHO/FYI: In many cases NO CHANGE IN THE CODE WILL MAKE YOUR COOKIES PERSIST, only wiping your whole local data (not only profile).

PS: @Alex313031 maybe a hint in the new-issue template to search in the chromium repo would make sense.

disclaimer: I had the same issue with chromium on windows and solved it via a new profile and removing Local State file. Might check Thorium on mac in middle future.

AJolly commented 3 months ago

ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows#36

assuming here anyone "using" vanilla profile without any custom flags... (yeah right).

the referenced issue mentions internal changing in cookies file path. But some ideas symptoms and solutions could apply.

You might be running into one of two issues: 1) Chrome(ium) and forks calculate hashes and store them in the Secure Preferences file, this is based on a combo of a seed and the machine SID. Pretty easy to bypass/resign the Secure Preferences File.

2) Passwords etc are encrypted (on windows) using DPAPI. You'd need to have exported these beforehand.