Why do I stay logged into Gmail even though browser.sessionstore.privacy_level is set to 1?

When I close my browser I expect not to still be logged in to secure sites (e.g. Gmail) when I reopen it. I know FF stopped this behaviour by default in FF4, so I have set browser.sessionstore.privacy_level to 1 which I believe should enforce this behaviour. However of late Gmail is still logged in when I reopen FF even after a complete shutdown of the computer for a day or so.
I've checked the browser.sessionstore.privacy_level setting and it's still set to 1.
This is definitely happening in in FF 25.0.1 on Ubuntu 13.10. I think it's also happening on my Windows (XP and 7) machines, but don't have them to hand to check.
Any ideas what else I should check?

I think there is some confusion about how Google's cookies work and what browser.sessionstore.privacy_level does.
You can allow Google to set two different kinds of cookies:
(1) ''Persistent'' cookies ("Keep until: they expire")
These expire on a future date. These cookies are not at all affected by the session restore settings.
(2) ''Session'' cookies ("Keep until: I close Firefox")
These cookies expire from the cookie database when you exit Firefox but may be restored if you restore your previous session.
With the default setting of browser.sessionstore.privacy_level=0, these session cookies are kept in your previous session data so that you can return to your prior Google session without logging in again.
With browser.sessionstore.privacy_level=1, session cookies from secure sites are NOT kept in your previous session data. When you restore the Google tab, you should be logged out in that tab (for example, you may get the login screen instead of your inbox).
Rather than flush ''all'' your cookies at shutdown, another approach is to set your cookies to be session cookies by default, and then make exceptions for sites where you want to stay logged in from session to session (e.g., forums or other sites that aren't sensitive).
The general setting is on the Privacy tab of the Options/Preferences dialog. [[Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences]].
To set site-specific exceptions, you can use the Exceptions button on the Privacy tab, or use the Page Info dialog while viewing a page on the site. Either:
* right-click and choose View Page Info > Permissions
* Tools menu > Page Info > Permissions
* right the padlock icon in the address bar > More Information > Permissions

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