Intermittent inability to log in

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In recent weeks, I have been unable to log in intermittently.

If I attempt to log in from one of the forum header pages, I get a screen with the usual “Thank you for logging in, Senegoid” message. After about five seconds, this screen disappears and the forum header page re-appears – usually with “Welcome, Senegoid” appearing where the login box formerly was (showing that I am logged in), but sometimes not (appearing just like I never logged in in the first place).

More often, I lurk without signing in. In this case, if I click in a button to add a post or quote an existing post, I get the usual larger sign-in prompt, with the list of reasons I might not be allowed to post, and the boxes for name and password. Upon entering those, again I get the usual “Thank you for logging in, Senegoid” message. After about five seconds, this screen disappears but the same screen re-appears with the reasons why I might not be allowed to post.

If I try to log in again, sometimes that is successful and sometimes I seem to be lost in a loop of signing in, only to get the “Thank you for signing in” screen followed by the sign-in screen again. Sometimes I am successful after several tries. Sometimes I close all by SDMB windows, erase all my cookies, and try again. That is usually successful, although not always.

I have been noticing this increasingly often in the last several weeks. What is going on? Are the hamsters getting senile?

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Not sure what’s going on with you, though I would wonder if perhaps your browser is corrupted.

Do you use the same browser all the time? Do you have this problem with other browsers?

Trying it with more than one browser would perhaps help figure out what’s going on with you.

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Well, it’s a bit hard to do any experiments, since this is happening so intermittently. Yes, I use just one browser on one mochine nearly all the time – Older version of Firefox on older version of Ubuntu on older physical hand-me-down box. And I run with JavaScript disabled nearly all the time which, as I’ve argued many times on this board, improves things. It’s hard to imagine why any of this would matter in such a way as to cause intermittent trouble rather than consistent trouble.

(I’ve noted before that certain features of SDMB simply refuse to work here, yet work with an old version of IE on an old Winders XP box. Specifically, multi-quotes don’t work. But I don’t care much about that very often.)