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Rob--W / cookie-manager

Cookie Manager for Firefox (Desktop/Android), Chrome. Supports viewing and editing of cookies and private cookies.
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ALWAYS opens when the extension starts up #37

Closed BoboSims closed 4 years ago

BoboSims commented 4 years ago

I hav e Cookie Manager installed with the latest version of Firefox on my Win7 desktop. The only thing that changed recently, is that FF updated.

I always had the option "Open the Cookie Manager when the extension starts up." UNticked, and up until a few days ago, it worked like that perfectly. Cookie Manager wouldn't open until I told it to.

But now, since a few days, it ALWAYS opens when first opening my browser after boot-up. And the setting mentioned above is ALWAYS ticked. I can UNtick it, and it will hold for that session. But as soon as I reboot my system, it is ticked again! It annoys me to have to close that tab all the time, especially since I didn't ask it to be opened in the first place.

Anyone else encountering this issue? Anyone know what's up with this?

Rob--W commented 4 years ago

Are you using third-party software that . modifies your Firefox profile, such as CCleaner? I know of a similar report of dataloss due caused by CCleaner - https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/07/09/changes-to-storage-sync-in-firefox-79/#comment-226930

Are you using Firefox Sync? If so, is there anything of interest in about:sync-log ?

Do you see any error message in the global console (ctrl-shift-j)?

BoboSims commented 4 years ago

Ah, that is nasty business. I've had CCleaner for so long, and it has never done that. But I remember seeing the "Firefox Internet Cache" setting recently, and thinking that it would be useful to keep that clean as well. In my opinion, this issue should not have been the consequence of that setting, but evidently it is. My problem has been solved by unticking that option in CCleaner.

Thank you so much for your help!

bege10 commented 4 years ago

Thank you for leading me to this post. It is the same issue here, unchecking Internet Cache solves the issue. That seems strange to me because these are the files listed by CCleaner at this entry:

C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\1mo1MZccdAstexKxWk8kMg==.ico 46 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\dcx+vwsORfzESNs0+r_uEw==.ico 1 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\E1x3_tNSG8Dd2EDhAfJ_1Q==.ico 10 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\FS65FAviMGxU4B0iDkfMpQ==.ico 1 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\HORfGWwW+7NmIg3fAbeesw==.ico 13 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\T3kJTgul_Peb5ePROHIacA==.ico 46 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\XF6AJxgxaeM49ZKQkkk3zA==.ico 1 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\jumpListCache\xxrnNq92UmEizZPIdQnbUQ==.ico 13 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal 513 KB C:\Users\bege\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\487kit50.Quantum\storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm 32 KB

Where does Cookie Manager store this option?

BoboSims commented 4 years ago

Where does Cookie Manager store this option?

I'm sure it's not in the jumpListCache folder; those are all just icons. So, by as muc h - or as little - logic as I understand, that leaves only the last two files. Odd thing is, I have those storage-sync-vw.sqlite-etc files as well, but I don't use sync at all. So I'm suspecting that they aren't involved in this issue either.

Rob--W commented 4 years ago

The cookie manager stores preferences with the browser.storage.sync API, so that users who do use Sync to sync add-ons will have their preferences synced as well.

When you aren't logged in with Sync, the data is still saved locally, but never sent to the remote Sync backend.

The data is locally saved in storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal.

BoboSims commented 4 years ago

Which then means that CCleaner could've been more selective about what it cleans out. But that's not something anyone here can do anything about. Well, thanks for explaining that, Rob.

bege10 commented 4 years ago

The data is locally saved in storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal.

Thanks from me, too, for the explanation. So either unchecking "Firefox Internet Cache" as mentioned or adding the two files to the exceptions should do.

bege10 commented 4 years ago

CCleaner 5.70 has fixed the issue. storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal are no longer being deleted.

BoboSims commented 4 years ago

CCleaner 5.70 has fixed the issue. storage-sync-v2.sqlite-shm and storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal are no longer being deleted.

GREAT. Thanks for the update, bege10.

Rob--W commented 4 years ago

FYI article from Mozilla support about this issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ccleaner-deleting-firefox-extension-settings-firef