keep some active logins even after clearing history on exit?

[Kristian Rink]

Folks;

let me rewrite my initial question as I think it got lost all along the
way: I have configured my Firefox to discard pretty much everything on
exit except for bookmarks and history. This includes "active logins",
too, as I want to have most of my sessions terminated as the application
is ended.

However, there are some active logins (Firefox Sync, Pocket, ...) that I
explicitely want to *not* be killed all along this way. Is there some
way in Firefox configuration, some addon, ..., to make configurable
which logins are ended and which are kept on exit?

TIA and all the best,
Kristian

[Good Guy]

I don't know about Add-ons because I don't use any in my FF.  However, you can delete the logins that you want to be killed completely by going to:

Tools >> Options >> Security >> Saved Logins

See this picture:



Click on the Saved Logins and click once on the item that you want to delete.  After clicking once on the item, you also need to click the button called Remove and it will remove it.

Next time when you go to that website, make sure you don't save the logins otherwise it will save again.

Good luck.

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[Kristian Rink]

Hi there;


and first off, thanks a bunch for your feedback. Well:

Am Freitag, den 03.03.2017, 21:15 +0000 schrieb Good Guy:
>
>  
> I don't know about Add-ons because I don't use any in my FF.  However,
> you can delete the logins that you want to be killed completely by
> going to:
>
> Tools >> Options >> Security >> Saved Logins
>

Yes, I know about that thing. But unfortunately this is exactly the
opposite of what I want. I do not want to manually "kill" sessions -
this does Firefox automatically, being configured to completely clear my
browser history on exit (which includes "active logins"). However I want
a few logins (Firefox Sync) explicitely *never* to be removed
automatically, unless eventually at some point I decide to do so
manually. Is that somehow possible?

[Sjouke Burry]

Hm... Clean the list of saved passwords, close firefox and
then make the file containing them readonly??????

[WaltS48]

That extension is called User Interaction, where the user logs out of a
site when they are finished, and doesn't log out of a site they don't
want to be logged out from.

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[FoxWolfie Galen]

On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:01:18 +0100, Kristian Rink <kawa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Most active login status' is stored in cookies. To stay logged in to some
sites, while deleting the rest, go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy. Set the
cookies to Keep until: "I close Firefox". Click on the Exceptions button,
and enter the sites you wish to stay logged in to. Click on "allow".
Remember to click on "Save changes" when you are done.

Doing this allows me to stay logged into my favorite sites, but still has
all other cookies automatically deleted at the end of a session.

I have my "Clear history when Firefox closes" checked, but I have "cookies"
unchecked under the settings button. This has always worked for me. I'm not
sure what it would do if I check cookies under the "settings" button, but
I'm guessing it might override my exceptions, so I never tried it.

If you use any sort of cleanup utility, like CCleaner, be sure to set it to
keep cookies for the sites you wish to stay logged into as well. The moment
anything deletes those cookies, the sites will no longer know you are logged
in to them.

[EE]

If you want to stay logged in to a site, keep its cookies.

[Mark Lloyd]

On 03/04/2017 12:51 PM, EE wrote:

[snip]

> If you want to stay logged in to a site, keep its cookies.

I've been doing that for years. I set FF to delete all cookies on exit,
then have exceptions for a few sites I use regularly.

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[Kristian Rink]

Hi there;

and first off, thanks a bunch for your feedback.

Am Samstag, den 04.03.2017, 05:56 -0500 schrieb FoxWolfie Galen:
>
> Most active login status' is stored in cookies.  To stay logged in to

> somesites, while deleting the rest, go to Tools -> Options ->
> Privacy.  Set thecookies to Keep until: "I close Firefox".  Click on
> the Exceptions button,and enter the sites you wish to stay logged in
> to.  Click on "allow".Remember to click on "Save changes" when you are
> done.
>

Well I feel astoundingly dumb right now - this sounds just like what I
want, but I'm unable to get this set up. Can you send me a screenshot of
the window or dialog where you set this? In Tools => Options => Privacy,
all dialogs that somehow deal with cookies just seem to allow for
viewing and deleting cookies but I seem to be unable to actually
*change* settings for any of these... :|

Thanks for your patience and all the best,
Kristian

[Kristian Rink]

Thanks for your patience and all the best,
Kristian

[Peter Boulding]

On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 09:11:08 +0100, Kristian Rink <kawa...@gmail.com>
wrote in <mailman.3482.148878787...@lists.mozilla.org>:

>> Most active login status' is stored in cookies.  To stay logged in to
>> somesites, while deleting the rest, go to Tools -> Options ->
>> Privacy.  Set thecookies to Keep until: "I close Firefox".  Click on
>> the Exceptions button,and enter the sites you wish to stay logged in
>> to.  Click on "allow".Remember to click on "Save changes" when you are
>> done.
>>
>
>Well I feel astoundingly dumb right now - this sounds just like what I
>want, but I'm unable to get this set up. Can you send me a screenshot of
>the window or dialog where you set this? In Tools => Options => Privacy,
>all dialogs that somehow deal with cookies just seem to allow for
>viewing and deleting cookies but I seem to be unable to actually
>*change* settings for any of these... :|

Try Tools > Page info > Permissions. 'Page Info' provides the only means--on
my (admittedly much-tweaked by several extensions) version of Firefox--to
achieve this sort of permanent site-specific override.)


Anyone know where this 'Page Info' option is to be found if you aren't
displaying the menu bar? AFAICS the only way to display it is to find, and
right-click on, a part of the relevant page that (a) isn't an image*, and
(b) a left-click would achieve nothing, and then choose it from the
resulting context menu... which is *so* unintuitive that it leads one to
conclude that it's on the list of features that the Mozilla Corp management
don't want you to find and intend to withdraw sometime soon (along with, it
seems increasingly likely, just about everything else that gives the Firefox
user a reason not to prefer Chrome).


* Not quite true: if you right-click on an image that isn't either a link or
a paused video and then choose 'View image info', the 'Page Info' page pops
up ... this time, for no obvious reason, as a pop-up window rather than a
new tab.


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