This is so frustrating. Chrome essentially logs me out of everything when I close my browser, and I have to log in every time. I have cleared cache and cookies, played with settings, all of it. I managed to erase ALL my saved PWs too, which is a giant PITA.
This is on my home desktop, and there isn’t anyone else that’s going to access my machine. I don’t really want to have to log in here every time I visit, I just want to click on the bookmark and have the site open with my selected settings.
So you’re saying this is for all website, not just here?
Either way, the first thing that comes to mind is to check to see that no option to automatically remove cookies on close has been set. This may also be a per-site setting, like you told it to reject cookies from the SDMB. Or a separate program that helpfully “cleans” everything for you, if you’ve installed one of those.
The other thing that I’ve actually run that the browser is unable to write its data to disk, so nothing from your browser gets saved. That could be a mechanical failure–and there’s some corruption on the disk where the data would normally be stored. Or software could be the culprit: it could be some antivirus software blocking the folder because some malware was caught in it. Something like that. Or, well, just a completely corrupted profile for your browser–the only way to fix that is to Refresh it (Firefox) or Reset Settings (Chrome). Google how to do whichever one is appropriate.
Finally, my brain jumps to malware. It wouldn’t be the intended effect–they wouldn’t want you to be able to tell. but sometimes poorly coded malware will break things, especially if it’s interacting other malware. So it would be good to check your system for that.
It’s hard to diagnose specifics without having access to your computer, but I hope one of these ideas will help.
Thanks. This all started after a Windows auto-update so I assumed there were some new ‘features’ that I haven’t found the settings for yet. It’s logging me out of just about everything, but I don’t have any settings set that way.
The ‘Remove Cookies’ setting is off, and I’m not seeing malware flagged (though there could still be something sneaky I suppose). I may have to go the Reset route. Sigh … such a pain to get it all put back the way I like it.
Right now my Chrome browser says paused up by my name icon. I usually get logged out of Youtube when this occurs. This has been the case for several weeks now. I log into Youtube as needed. I’m staying logged in at every non-google location. My phone stays logged in. Maybe I can only stay logged in on one device?
I have had similar issues with my Chrome browser since a Windows auto-update last week. It’s not 100% of websites and it’s not 100% of the time.
IN addition to the websites, every login Windows keeps track of, including the several email accounts my Outlook connects to, seems to go wonky & need a fresh password every few hours.
I’m about to replace the PC anyhow, so for now I’m putting up with. But it is majorly vexing.
I forgot including Windows updates, because I’ve been following the advice at https://askwoody.com and don’t allow updates to run until they get all the bugs out. I’m not okay with being an unpaid beta tester for Microsoft’s poor quality control department.
If you suspect the update, then the solution to try is to uninstall the update. Go to Settings > Update and Security > Windows Updates > View Update History > Uninstall updates. Scroll over so you can see the dates and try uninstalling stuff installed in August, trying each one at a time. Each uninstall will likely need a restart before seeing if it actually worked.
If it does work, then I definitely suggest using the Pause updates option in the Windows Update Screen. I wouldn’t update again until Monday, September 7, or up to a week before that. (The second Tuesday of the month is when Microsoft releases new patches.) Or, really, just watch the MS-DEFCON system on woody’s site which I linked above. It’ll tell you when the patches are ready.
I’m assuming you use Windows 10 throughout this. If you’re on Windows 8.1, there are similar instructions, but I’m not familiar with that OS to give you specifics. I’d just google for uninstall updates Windows 8.1. And then google how to set updates to only install when you choose to install them.