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Chrome misbehaving with SOL

Wheezer 🚫
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I finally switched to Chrome a few days ago - tired of all the web page error problems & video incompatibility with my old IE. Also, my email server held a knife to my throat and said I WILL switch to chrome.

Now, every day I have to login to SOL instead of being automatically logged in. Chrome remembers my username & password, but will not do an auto login like IE did. It also does not remember threads marked as read in the forums and every day, the first time I open a forum, it shows every single thread as unread. Once open, it remembers for the day.

I hope it's a setting somewhere not turned on or off, but I can't find it and Chrome Help is no help.

Short of going back to IE, can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks.

Replies: Keet awnlee jawking Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster) StarFleet Carl

Keet 🚫

@Wheezer

Short of going back to IE, can anyone offer any advice?

Switch to Firefox. Switching from IE to Chrome is like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
The failure to keep you logged in to SOL has nothing to do with the browser but with the settings for whichever browser you use, specifically allowing cookies for SOL I presume. Possibly your old IE can't handle that any more.

awnlee jawking 🚫
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@Wheezer

Now, every day I have to login to SOL instead of being automatically logged in. Chrome remembers my username & password, but will not do an auto login like IE did.

I agree with Keet. I can't remember how but I deliberately changed my settings so that all cookies are deleted when I close down Chrome.

ETA - Click on the customize and control menu (3 horizontal bars, top right).

Click on settings, the penpenultimate menu option.

Zap right to the bottom and click on show advanced settings

Go down a smidgin to privacy and click on content settings.

Tinker away ...

AJ

Remus2 🚫

Firefox Focus will wipe the cache and cookies when closed. It can be a pain to use at first, but it's saved more trouble than it caused me over the last year.

Ernest Bywater 🚫

I'm told there are setting in Chromium to fix your issues, but I've not found them. While I do have Chromium I use foe some sites like Google, I use FireFox for my main browser as it doesn't send activity reports home the way Chromium does.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Wheezer

Are you browsing SOL in incognito mode?

If yes, then this is the behaviour you should expect. Incognito mode tells the browser not to keep any browsing data after closing. To fix the problem, don't use inconginto mode with SOL.

Also, you can usually configure Chrome to auto-delete cookies, history and other data automatically upon close. To fix your problem you must configure Chrome to keep SOL browsing data.

Replies: WiseTioga

WiseTioga 🚫
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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Wheezer

I've been using Chrome for four or five years and have never had a problem with SOL. On the sign-in page do you check the box that says keep me signed in?

StarFleet Carl 🚫

@Wheezer

I hope it's a setting somewhere not turned on or off, but I can't find it and Chrome Help is no help.

Under your settings screen (the three little vertical dots to the far right of the browser bar), scroll down to advanced, and then check how often you clear your browsing data. And check whether you allow cookies or not.

I've been using Chrome for years, through multiple computers, and never had an issue with it remembering me on here.

Wheezer 🚫

Thanks for all the help and advice, folks. The issue seems to have been with the cookie settings. It seems to be behaving itself now.

Dinsdale 🚫

Just a general point here: You do not have to use the same browser for *everything*. I use one browser for most sites and another for some specific sites, at a recent job I went as far as using a third one for one specific site which only worked correctly with *that* particular browser (until they fixed the problem).

Replies: StarFleet Carl jason1944

StarFleet Carl 🚫

@Dinsdale

Just a general point here: You do not have to use the same browser for *everything*.

Agreed. I use Chrome for most things, but one of my work training sites just doesn't work well with anything not Microsoft. It's almost like they've coded into it, check if browser is Microsoft. If yes, work normally. If no, crash and not work for squat.

Replies: Tw0Cr0ws anim8ed

Tw0Cr0ws 🚫

@StarFleet Carl

That is actually true.
Web browsers have what is called a User-Agent string which tells websites what they are.
With a little work they can be spoofed.

anim8ed 🚫

@StarFleet Carl

Micro$oft has always had non-standard HTML code that only Internet Exploder recognized.

Replies: Dinsdale

Dinsdale 🚫

@anim8ed

Well, yes - that site at work which *only* worked with one browser, that browser was a specific level of Microsith Planet Exploder.
When it got to the stage that some sites were testing for the browser version and rejecting it because of the security holes, even that site switched.

Replies: madnige

madnige 🚫
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@Dinsdale

Micro$oft has always had non-standard HTML code that only Internet Exploder recognized.

Worse than that: I saw a site (a decade or more ago) that looked at why some sites looked crap on non-IE browsers, and found that the MS web server suite (I think FrontPage was mentioned) would send deliberately broken HTML for non-IE browsers, so that the page text would run into or over the edges of the window (so looking crummy, but still just usable); they (the investigating site) confirmed this by spoofing the user-agent string both to and from IE and getting different css files which gave the problem to various degrees, with IE showing the problem if spoofed as another browser, and other browsers not showing it when spoofed as IE.

ETA: Oops, hit the wrong reply button, quote was from anim8ed

jason1944 🚫
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@Dinsdale

I use Chrome for everything except SOL. I use Opera for that, and it always works well.
To be clear, SOL works fine for me on Chrome, I just want to keep separate my SFW and NSFW (in my case this stands for Not Safe For Wife) browsing.

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