Firefox Quantum (up to v.61) Youtube cookies bug?
From the date I installed FF quantum and now up to v.61, FF suffers from some kind of weird bug with Youtube cookies.
I set YT to be in dark mode and region United States. And from time to time, random time, it somehow loses settings and reverts back to white mode and region Serbia. Even when I'm using FF, or even when I close FF and open it again. It doesn't matter.
Note: I tried before, when YT changed it's UI and FF quantum was iin previous versions, to delete cookies.sqlite so that new cookies would be recreated. But that didn't helped.
So I decided to see what is wrong with cookies.sqlite with DB brower for sqlite.
Searched under host column for youtube and I got this line (image attached) that is a bit weird.
Under value column there is a date 2017/10/22 (I don't know what 09-0 is). So I changed value to YES+US.en+20180605-09-0 wrote changes, copied back to profile folder and for now it is working.
Will get back if it doesn't.
Now, before and if anything goes back, it seems that there is a problem with FF not retreiving or updating cookie for Youtube.
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Hi, make a new Profile :
If is your Profile :
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
- bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
- bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
- cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
- formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
- logins.json (passwords) and key4.db (58+) or key3.db (57 and older) (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
- if you only have key3.db then make sure to remove an existing key4.db
- cert9.db (58+) or cert8.db (57 and older) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
- if you only have cert8.db then make sure to remove an existing cert9.db
- persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
- permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
- sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)
Tried already with new profile. Sounds good, doesn't work. :) Nevertheless, I solved it by modifying date in above post.
But I do not know what is the problem, Youtube or FF cookies.
Hi, what modified date in the above post ? Did you solve it ? Is the last line rhetorical ?
Will quote myself from original post, also there is an image attached:
"So I decided to see what is wrong with cookies.sqlite with DB brower for sqlite.
Searched under host column for youtube and I got this line (image attached) that is a bit weird.
Under value column there is a date 2017/10/22 (I don't know what 09-0 is). So I changed value to YES+US.en+20180605-09-0 wrote changes, copied back to profile folder and for now it is working."
And no, that is not a rhetorical question. If anyone has an answer why cookies for Youtube reset or doesn't remeber themselves, refresh or whatever, please do answer.