Speaking to you from Opera because Firefox 18 won’t log in at the attachmate site. Changed p/w and tried again with same result: window returns to same log-in page without an error message. Using the wrong p/w returns with an error notice in red. On openSuse 12.2 64-bit with KDE. Have disabled Adblock and NoScript. Webex acknowledges some problems lately with Firefox. Might there be a connection?
Thanks.
Suggest you test this with a new user login or a clean .mozilla (you can temp rename existing .mozilla to do this)
Report what happens
Fx 18.0 is the standard openSUSE 12.2 one (from the Update repo) and I do not have such problems. And I guess many people have this combination without them reporting here your problem.
Try caf4926’s suggestion
Renamed .mozilla to SAV.mozilla and restarted the browser. Logged in with no problem. Also, updated the freetype package because it came up on Apper today. I hate to change more than one variable at a time–didn’t know that freetype was involved in Firefox until that domain name came up briefly while restarting Firefox.
I could press on and forget the problem, but I’m curious about these things and would like to know that happened and, if possible, correct and revert to saved settings.
Thanks.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:46:01 +0000, konsultor wrote:
> I could press on and forget the problem, but I’m curious about these
> things and would like to know that happened and, if possible, correct
> and revert to saved settings.
Try clearing cookies/cache. That usually resolves login issues.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
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Like Jim I think clearing cookies of all opensuse and novell sites may help. Sometimes something there goes out of sync (the loging in in the forums is not a straightforward thing).
Thus reverting the .mozilla (where the cookies are) move and try cleaning cookies might be your next test.
I do not know about Apper, I do not use it. Only YaST (or zypper).
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:08:56 +0000, hcvv wrote:
> Like Jim I think clearing cookies of all opensuse and novell sites may
> help.
And now attachmategroup.com since that’s where the login is handled.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
I apoligize. I forgot that one. An advice should be complete else I better give none at all 
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:56:03 +0000, hcvv wrote:
> I apoligize. I forgot that one. An advice should be complete else I
> better give none at all
Not a problem, it can be challenging to keep track of at times (I had to
go try the login to get the right domain name myself). 
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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I am having that problem at work - my office computer. So if I want to access opensuse forums from work, I use konqueror. I would prefer to use firefox, but I could not login.
From home, however, I am not having any difficulty.
Sorry to report that removing cookies (OS, Novel, elogua) and clearing caches doesn’t change the behavior. Can’t log in, the form page reappears each time. This is after restoring my original .mozilla directory and restarting Firefox. Curioser and curioser.
If you would prefer not to have to start with a fresh .mozilla - try this
Using you .mozilla profile that is wonky. Open Show All Bookmarks and then > Import/Backup and > Backup
It will save a .json file
Now revert to a clean .mozilla and Import that .json
Now does login work?
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:56:01 +0000, konsultor wrote:
> hcvv;2521431 Wrote:
>> Like Jim I think clearing cookies of all opensuse and novell sites may
>> help.
> Sorry to report that removing cookies (OS, Novel, elogua) and clearing
> caches doesn’t change the behavior. Can’t log in, the form page
> reappears each time. This is after restoring my original .mozilla
> directory and restarting Firefox. Curioser and curioser.
Try clearing all cookies, not just those specific cookies. Might be
something that’s getting missed.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
No change in behavior with Firefox. Can log in on Opera.
I’ll update this.
I copied the firefox profile from my home machine to my office machine. And now it works there.
I was already using the same extensions on both, and periodically synchronizing cookies between the two. So I’m not sure what was the difference between the two profiles that caused the problem.
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:26:01 +0000, konsultor wrote:
> hendersj;2521543 Wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:56:01 +0000, konsultor wrote:
>>
>> Try clearing all cookies, not just those specific cookies. Might be
>> something that’s getting missed.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> No change in behavior with Firefox. Can log in on Opera.
If you haven’t already, try renaming the .mozilla directory in your home
directory. That’ll wipe out all the settings (so rename rather than
delete) and see if you can then.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
I read through the thread, but I’m a bit puzzled after all:
The thing has been resolved then, hasn’t it ??
Problem returned. As before, renamed .mozilla and restarted Firefox (now up to 22). Was then able to go through the process of changing my p/w at Novell; logged into the openSuse forums (Duh, I’m posting).
I’m glad I checked this old thread again. Thanks again. Any idea of the root cause of the problem? Should be something that’s not specific to the Firefox version. I’d like to go back to the old .mozilla directory for some configs, bookmarks, etc.
On 2013-07-29 16:16, konsultor wrote:
> Problem returned. As before, renamed .mozilla and restarted Firefox
> (now up to 22).
Didn’t you try removing the cookies first?
Besides that, there is no need to rename .mozilla, you can simply tell
firefox to create a new profile.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
This happens to me every couple of days with different versions of firefox (linux and windows) and chrome. The problem seems to be on server side which cannot properly deal with expired cookies. Yes, clearing cookies helps, but doing it every second day is a tad annoying.