I cannot log into drupal.org site using Firefox. I enter username and password and hit the "log in" button but after a while, it displays the same page with no error (the user login block is still present and no error message appears).

If I try the same operation with IE, everything is fine.

I cannot find a similar problem in the bug list, so I post an issue.

I'm working on WINDOWS XP Home Edition SP2.

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dww’s picture

dww
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i bet your browser is configured to refuse cookies. drupal should do a *much* better job about reporting this error, IMHO.

micheld88’s picture

micheld88 commented

Yes it seems to be linked to cookies. I've configured Firefox to authorize drupal.org and www.drupal.org cookies, but the problem still remains: if I look to cookie exceptions after click on the Login button, I see that drupal.org is blocked but no www.drupal.org. So it seems that drupal is changing the cookie state to Blocked !
I don't understand anything !!!!

micheld88’s picture

micheld88 commented

This problem is still Open. I cannot logged from Firefox, so I have to use IE...
Does somebody know what happens ?

xweb’s picture

xweb commented

i have had the same, log in goes back to log in - tried deleting cookies and works ok, at least for a while. hmm

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drupal777 commented

I am on 1.5.0.4 and it logs in without fail. I do not have cookies restricted, however.

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frostschutz commented

I can login in Firefox 1.5.0.3, however, sometimes I'm not actually logged in (and no error either) until I click one of the links on my Drupal page or hit the 'Reload' button. It is the browser cache interfering, it simply shows the (cached) login page again after logging in. You can go to about:config and turn off all cache (disk cache as well as memory cache), and the login works fine. I don't know if this is a Firefox bug (too aggressive cache) or a Drupal bug (after all, web server / pages can influence the caching behaviour of browsers in various ways).

To the original poster, can you try logging in again and, if you see the login page without error message, check if you're actually logged in after you hit the reload button? In that case you're suffering from the cache problem also.

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praseodym commented

I've had this problem on my own site, the page where I was not logged in was cached. It happened in nearly every browser, and wasn't actually reproducible every time.

micheld88’s picture

micheld88 commented

To frostschutz: Yes, using the reload button logs me in.

However, it's not very clean ! May be the author of the code could have a look ?

Tobias Maier’s picture

Tobias Maier commented

I have the same problem
login and as you said you dont get a message (nothing happens)
but try to press F5 and you will see that you are logged in.

I have the same problem on my own sites
I can see people on my site logging in twice, because the first time it didnt work...

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Gman commented

I am also having this problem. I have explicitly allowed drupal.org cookies, refreshed cache and I still can't login using Firefox 1.5.04. I can't get on at my own site nor even onto this one. Refreshing the screens do not help.

This issue really should be raise from Normal. Firefox is growing in usage and if all new Firefox (using 1.5.0X) users have to relaunch IE just to get on Drupal 4.X sites, that will be a drag.

Thanks for the help.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

Gosh, this is getting so annoying. It happens to many people but seemingly irregular.

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jazzitup commented
Title: Login doesn't work on Firefox 1.5.0.3 » Login doesn't work on Firefox 1.5.0.6

I noticed the same issue on a brand new Firefox installation with default settings (+ Noia 2.0 theme and Flash plugin only). What a shame...

Gman’s picture

Gman commented

Yes, it is intermittent. I hae now upgraded to 1.5.0.7 and the login does work. That makes me think that it may be a FireFox extension of some sort that cause the error.

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webchick
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Project: Drupal.org site moderators » Drupal.org infrastructure
Component: web site » Other

Has anyone seen this problem recently? There have been a couple patches to core to attempt to fix this since the last reply.

jazzitup’s picture

jazzitup commented

I'm running FF v1.5.0.9 and didn't notice the same issue since then. I believe it's patched now.

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killes@www.drop.org commented
Status: Active » Fixed

this was most likely a user error.

chelahmy’s picture

chelahmy commented

I had the same problem. Didn't work in FF but worked in IE. And I was earlier following this thread http://drupal.org/node/108663 and to no avail.

What I did in FF was Tools->Clear Private Data with Cache and Authenticated Sessions checked. Now I can login as normal again. I think it is a bug in FF. But what can we do?

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)