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Re:Firefox 36.0 released by _jomo on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:37PM (#9102574)
Fix some unexpected logout from Facebook or Google after restart

What sort of bug is this that only affects Facebook & Google?

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Re:Firefox 36.0 released by IvyMike on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:02PM (#9102733)
Looks like it's probably this bug, which (to my reading) was a problem handling domain cookies:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399

This would of course affect any site, but the two common instances were FB and google.

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Re:Firefox 36.0 released by mcpoulet on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:00PM (#9102722)
Here is the corresponding bug on Bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399 This what related to the way Facebook and Youtube sends cookies for all their subdomains, and not just www. (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399#c55).
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Re:Firefox 36.0 released by tachyonbeam on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:53PM (#9102686)
The kind that affects a lot of users and is likely to be reported and fixed.
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