IChat won't keep me logged in

its kind of strange... all of the messaging programs don't stay logged in or stop recieving messages every 10 minutes or so

If your LAN IP is given out using DHCP I would look at the lease times (If it is all services)
Web browsing and mail will not notice any breaks as the IP changes (or is checked) but IM apps will.
I am not dropping AIM here running on two computers but suspect the AIM servers as more likely.
If you are using the same screen name on several Clients also check the ability to do Multiple Logins.
Does it coincide with a action in the Buddy List like some one coming or going Off Line ?
9:04 PM Sunday; November 18, 2007

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Am using Safari 6.0.5, suddenly my Yahoo mail account won't keep me logged in and the 'keep me logged in' button has disappeared. It is still there on Chrome so am assuming it is a Safari issue. It just happened suddenly. Have reset Safari.

Am using Safari 6.0.5, suddenly my Yahoo mail account won't keep me logged in and the 'keep me logged in' button has disappeared. It is still there on Chrome so am assuming it is a Safari issue. It just happened suddenly. Have reset Safari, cache and also changed my Yahoo password but problem is still there.

I still don't understand what the problem that you are experiencing is. If you get to a page where yahoo is asking JUST for your password, and there is no box for username (it may have your username displayed, but not in a enter box), then you ARE "being kept signed in" You can verify this by instead of entering your password, go to www.yahoo.com home page, and it will say something like "Hi, Amber" This means you ARE signed in.
When you get that page asking for just your password, you are NOT being asked to sign in again. You are simply being asked to verify/enter your assword an Nth time. If you get that page right after entering your username and password, try clicking the "back" (previous page) button. It might just go to your inbox.
If this is the case, your problem has nothing to do with being kept signed in or not, the problem is that for some (unknown to me) reason, yahoo is asking you to re-enter your password, kind of like when your mac asks for your mac password when changing system settings. Yahoo does this as a safety feature when you go to account settings, and apparently abritary other times. I wish I understood just why I get it every time after signing in.
It could be because I have java turned off. It could be because I don't accept third party cookies. Maybe a cache file. Or a hundred other things... I don't know. It could simply be yahoo is scrooing safari users. I have glanced at the html, but to really understand it, it would take me days. There are over 25 places where username and password are in the html "source" code of the yahoo login page, and even understanding that may not tell me. In the past, I have seen code essentiall saying "if IE x.3.2" do this, if chrome do that, if mozilla do something else, otherwise make it next to impossible...."
My problem is not only I get asked for my assword a second time, but also (and only very recently) I do not get a prompt to save username and pasword. I have gone to yahoo help pages to try to figure it out, and I feel like I just run in circles. If one wants to send a question in, they have to answer half a dozen questions disclosing private information. And I pay yahoo $20/year. grrr
If when you are trying to access your yahoo mail and you are being asked to enter both your username and password, but didn't sign out of yahoo, then indeed your are not being "kept signed in"

Mac safari won't keep my logged in

My mac's safari will not keep me logged into sites that I clicked "keep me logged in" with. It used to but once I downloaded the newest software for my Mac it doesn't anymore. Instead, when I open a page it'll keep my username and password in the given boxes but I have to click sign in every time.

i'm running windows xp but i think i found the equivelant file in C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application Data\Apple Computer\Preferences
i deleted this and it appears to have reset safari but once i close the broswer, it still won't keep me logged into twitter. thanks for your help, i hope you have more ideas lol

Internet Explorer 10 won't keep me logged in

I installed Win 8, and I'm using IE10. But when I visit some of my favorite forums and web pages (forum.tauri.hu, prohardver.hu, etc.) and I choose the "Keep me logged in" option, after browser restart, or in mid browsing, I get logged out, and
have to re log in. Using another browser, I don't have a problem, but on my laptop only IE can play 720p or 1024p Youtube videos fluently.
I tried resetting, without success. But yahoo.com, live.com can keep me logged in.

Hi yidalevan,
Maybe you set “Delete browsing history on exit”. Please check your seetings:
1. Open the Internet explorer;
2. Open “Internet Options”;
3. On ”General” tab, click “Delete…” under “Browsing history”;
4. Uncheck “Passwords” and “Cookies and website data”;
5. On ”General” tab, click “Settings” under “Browsing history”;
6. On “History” tab, set “Days to keep pages in history” as “20”.
Then check the situation.
Best regards,
Karen Hu

One website forum won't keep me logged in

This forum has an 'automatically log me in each visit' check box that worked on previous versions of FF but won't work on the latest.
I'm on a Mac.

Websites remembering you and automatically log you on is stored in a cookie.
* Create an allow cookie exception (Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies: Exceptions) to keep such a cookie, especially for secure websites and if cookies expire when Firefox is closed.
Make sure that you do not run Firefox in Private Browsing mode.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Private+Browsing
In [[Private Browsing]] mode all cookies are session cookies that expire if that session is ended, so websites won't remember you.
Do not use Clear Recent History to clear the "Cookies" and the "Site Preferences"
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Clear+Recent+History
Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, and passwords.

My ichat won't keep my buddies.

When I add buddies to my ichat they appear offline then disapear a few seconds later? It is ichat 6.0.1.

No Problem.
Thanks for the points.
History for those interested.
In reality this actually has a error code name and number.
It is FeedBag error 10 although iChat stopped reporting this from version 4 and beyond.
Buddies are "Food" - Food is kept in "Feedbags"
From there your Buddy List as Screen Names only is Feedbag at the server end.
Your Address Book is a local Feedbag.
iChat can add to this Feedbag so that Buddies appear with the "Real Names".
Like you cannot add the same Screen Name twice, the Address Book will not allow the same First Name, Last Name combo to the Address Book
(You cannot have two John Smith names. If you know two John Smiths their Address Book entries have to be different at the First Name, Last Name level).
The Error still exists but iChat does not report it.
The other two in the Link have since disappeared from general use. (There is no realistic Limit on the Buddy list any more).
10:14 PM Friday; January 6, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
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Per Yahoo, I have a cookie problem. Yahoo won't keep me logged in using Firefox 4.0.1

Is there a Firefox 4.0.1 user who is also a Yahoo user who has figured out how to stay logged into Yahoo?
According to other things I've seen on Firefox, my cookies are set correctly, and I'm allowing passwords to be saved on all sites with NO exceptions, but when I leave Yahoo, or simply brows in Yahoo, suddenly I have to log in again.

Is there a Firefox 4.0.1 user who is also a Yahoo user who has figured out how to stay logged into Yahoo?
According to other things I've seen on Firefox, my cookies are set correctly, and I'm allowing passwords to be saved on all sites with NO exceptions, but when I leave Yahoo, or simply brows in Yahoo, suddenly I have to log in again.

Websites won't keep me logged on

I used to be able to click on my Facebook, Pinterest, etc. icons and already be logged in. After installing ios7 I have to input username / password? How can I fix this?

Hmmm, I'm having the same issue in safari on pages I'm signed into.
It was saving my logins after the update, then it stopped doing that yesterday.
I don't feel I should have to opt to save passwords, when this is a shared device.
I see in settings > safari > privacy security >do not track. I have turned on.
Let's both see if turning that off fixes it? If yours is turned on as well, that is.

Firefox won't keep me logged into Facebook, even in Safe Mode?

This problem has been bugging me, for God knows how long and I just can't get rid of it, unless I reset Firefox which is really not want I want to be doing just to get rid of this tiny, but irritating problem.
Firefox never remembers to be signed in still to Facebook, even in Safe Mode without extensions.
How can I get rid of this problem? If it isn't possible without resetting, I'd like a simple and concise tutorial on how to get all my extensions and settings back (however obviously not the one that keeps causing this problem). I've been using this Firefox profile for at least a good few years and it's all set up properly for my personal use. Thanks.

firefox is able to keep different cookie settings on a per-site basis. those probably got cleared when you forgot the history about facebook. you can inspect the current permissions while you're on a site when you right-click it, go to ''view page info > permissions''. if you haven't changed that yourself intentionally, then i also don't really know what might have caused that - maybe an addon was interfering?

Iv downloaded the 0845 wizard from the App Store. Registered my details and it has been working. But for some reason it won't let me log in and keep saying failed every time I try to use it. Iv deleted and re-downloaded the app and it still says the same?

Iv downloaded the 0845 wizard from the App Store. Registered my details and it has been working. But for some reason it won't let me log in and keep saying failed every time I try to use it. Iv deleted and re-downloaded the app and it still says the same?

I would say to start by looking on their web site... unfortunately, that appears to be dead.
Based on the horrible ratings on the App Store (1 star for the current version), I'm not surprised it doesn't work well.

I cant log in to my ichat account, it keeps telling me my mobile me password is wrong when its not?

I cant log in to my ichat account, it keeps telling me my mobile me password is wrong when its not?

Hi,
If you have an @mac.com or @me (MobileMe) name then the password needs to be kept to 16 characters or Less due a limit at the AIM server end.
Use iForgot to change the Password
A @me.com name associated with Lion/iOS5/iCloud will only work in Lion and iChat 6
7:55 PM Sunday; November 20, 2011
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Force iChat to keep a log with Terminal

Dear Ralph, I read in one of your threads the instruction using terminal on how to force iChat to keep a log (/Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat -errorLogLevel 7) However when I enter this instruction I get the following reply:2007-12-18 13:01:13.391 iChat[5841:10b] Failed to register port: com.apple.iChatIncomingMessages
I would like to check log as one of my relatives can't see any text in their textchat window if they initiate but I can. If I initiate then no pop-up appears their side. I have verified this by using ARD. However audio and video do work...
Their modem Speedtouch ST780sip with portforwarding set up it is a MacBook upgraded from Tiger to 10.5.1

Hi Gerard,
Sorry about being late to this thread.
Can you post more of the log as one line out of context does not help.
The other choice is to get rid of the Speedtouch 780
(I take it we have discussed this in another thread)
8:58 PM Friday; December 21, 2007

Why won't Firefox keeped me logged in to anything after I close and reopen it?

When I was running an older version of Firefox, when I would close a firefox window and later reopen it, I would stay logged in to everything: facebook, hotmail, gmail with multiple sign in, etc. It would also reload all the tabs I had open without me having to click "restore previous session" I liked this as I could close the window, but keep everything that I was working on or wanted open in Firefox without having to pull it all up again. I have since upgraded to the newest version after installing a new hard drive (Windows 7 still), but whenever I close Firefox, I am logged out of everything and my previous tabs don't restore unless I click "restore previous session" (that still will keep me logged out of everything, even if I click it).
How do I set up Firefox to not log me out whenever I close the browser and to automatically restore my previous session?
browser.sessionstore.privacy_level is set to 0 and I do not have "Clear history when Firefox closes" checked.
Please help! Thanks!

There is also the browser.sessionstore.privacy_level_deferred pref that is used when you do not reopen the previous session automatically via "Show my windows and tabs from last time" and uses the same values.
Details like websites remembering you (log you in automatically) are stored in a cookie.
*Create a cookie 'allow' exception to keep such cookies, especially in case of secure websites and when cookies expire when Firefox is closed.
*Tools > Options > Privacy > "Use custom settings for history" > Cookies: Exceptions
You can check <b>browser.sessionstore.*</b> prefs including browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash on the <b>about:config</b> page and reset browser.sessionstore prefs that are user set (bold) via the right-click context menu to the default value to make sure that Session Restore is enabled and working properly.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/restore-previous-session
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash

Why won't firefox keep me logged in on mozilla website?

I came here, registered, went to email, clicked activation link. error reported with link, with suggestion that I clicked wrong link, but it's the ONLY link in the email.
Came back to mozilla site, tried my login and p/w...surprise!..got logged in!
No checkbox for keeping me logged in automatically everytime I visit mozilla site, but FF will remember login details, si I have to click 'sign in' link everytime, which wouldn't be so bad, but when I'm trying to reply to somebody having issues that I've had before, it becomes more than just a minor nuisance having to reload the page yet again.
Is this an intenional thing with mozilla to not have their own browser not automatically logging into it's own site?
Is it a site upgrade/suggestion thing?
Either way, it's almost enough to make me wonder just what you guys smoke when you design webpages, cos I thought this was supposed to be a "personal, customisable' browser that automatically signed in when visiting a page.
There's not even an option for it on the profile page.
I am the only one using my computer, so I see no point in NOT allowing it to happen.
Is this auto sign in never going to happen for this site, or is it going to be implemented in the near future?

Those details are stored in cookies, make sure that you have cookies enabled.
Another possibility is the cookies for the site are malformed, try removing the cookie for the site to force Firefox to create a new cookie. For details on doing that see [[Deleting cookies]].

Why won't Firefox keep me logged in to a particular site (i.e. my email, Facebook) even after I check box to keep me logged in?

Every time I open up Firefox I have to re-log in to my email, and re-log in to Facebook, when, really, I should be kept logged in indefinitely as I check off the box that says to keep me logged in. It's a nuisance. How do I fix this?

Those details are stored in cookies, make sure that you have cookies enabled.
Another possibility is the cookies for the site are malformed, try removing the cookie for the site to force Firefox to create a new cookie. For details on doing that see [[Deleting cookies]].

IChat won't keep me logged in

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