Update: Haven’t used my lemmy.world account in a while, so thought I’d test this out over there. Same thing happened after several minutes. Then I tried on Mastodon.world for a while and it seems to work fine. I’ll try giving the alternate front end another round of testing later today.
Addendum: Can’t reproduce the problem on t.programming.dev today, and couldn’t seem to on a.programming.dev yesterday, so it seems to be specific to the default Lemmy front end.
I think I figured out how to reproduce it really quick.
Log in to Lemmy on Firefox
Switch to a different app
Switch back to Firefox
Reload the page.
Poof! I’m out. I repeated the test multiple times to confirm it’s consistent. Probably actually getting kicked out on step 2. It’s like FF decides to expire the Lemmy cookies when the app loses focus.
Armed with that info, I retested two alternate front ends on programming.dev (a. & t.) and default front end on lemmy.world and default front end on programming.drv with Brave. I was previously getting logged out on lemmy.world, but not now (maybe they updated something? Or my test is still flawed.). So, with these steps I can only reproduce it on programming.dev with the default front end on Firefox.
I seem to have isolated the problem to using a link to the website on the phone’s home screen (created from FF using the “Add to Home screen” option in the three dots menu next to the address bar.
Starting that way seems to give any session cookies a very short life and they disappear quickly (logging me out). I created a bookmark within FF and have been using that and haven’t been logged out since.
In fact, if I use the home screen link to programming.dev, FF doesn’t think I’m logged in, but then if I use the bookmark from within that same instance of FF, it instantly sees me as already logged in.
Are you able to log in and stay logged in on one of the alternate frontends? E.g. https://a.programming.dev
Seems tied to my phone. Not happening on the desktop. Will try the alternate front end next. Then maybe reboot. 🤣
Ok, so pretty certain this is specific to my phone.
Browsed the recommended alternate front end for as long as I could stand it. Didn’t get logged out, but I may have just not waited long enough.
Back on normal frontend, I deleted all browsing data (cookies, etc), logged back in and then got kicked out within a few minutes.
Rebooting the phone now. 🤞
Update: Nope, still getting booted within a few minutes. Beyond just using a different browser, I’m out of ideas, so I’ll try that for a bit. 🤷
Update 2: Doesn’t seem to be happening in Brave. So currently, only in FF, only on my phone, clearing cookies and rebooting did not help.
I’m open to any more ideas.
which firefox, stable beta or nightly
Update: Haven’t used my lemmy.world account in a while, so thought I’d test this out over there. Same thing happened after several minutes. Then I tried on Mastodon.world for a while and it seems to work fine. I’ll try giving the alternate front end another round of testing later today.
Addendum: Can’t reproduce the problem on t.programming.dev today, and couldn’t seem to on a.programming.dev yesterday, so it seems to be specific to the default Lemmy front end.
so it sounds like default frontend, maybe tied to the version we have (we’re still a few versions behind), only mobile ff.
Desktop FF here, been getting kicked off roughly once a day on default.
Not happening on Mlmym (
old.), which I found to be better anyway. Wish I’d know about it before. Please keep it maintained!I think I figured out how to reproduce it really quick.
Poof! I’m out. I repeated the test multiple times to confirm it’s consistent. Probably actually getting kicked out on step 2. It’s like FF decides to expire the Lemmy cookies when the app loses focus.
Armed with that info, I retested two alternate front ends on programming.dev (a. & t.) and default front end on lemmy.world and default front end on programming.drv with Brave. I was previously getting logged out on lemmy.world, but not now (maybe they updated something? Or my test is still flawed.). So, with these steps I can only reproduce it on programming.dev with the default front end on Firefox.
What OS are you using? Version of FF?
I seem to have isolated the problem to using a link to the website on the phone’s home screen (created from FF using the “Add to Home screen” option in the three dots menu next to the address bar.
Starting that way seems to give any session cookies a very short life and they disappear quickly (logging me out). I created a bookmark within FF and have been using that and haven’t been logged out since.
In fact, if I use the home screen link to programming.dev, FF doesn’t think I’m logged in, but then if I use the bookmark from within that same instance of FF, it instantly sees me as already logged in.
Very strange.