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Firefox login issues?

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Is anyone else having Firefox login issues? For the life of me I can't login using Firefox, but I just tried switching to IE (via the handy little IE switcher add on) and I can login. Not quite sure what's going on here. Through the old forum software link in FF I can login of course, but not in the new one. Any help? Thanks.
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When I first tried logging in to the new site, I couldn't, so I got a new password and it
seems to be working now (I use Netscape, btw).

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Hmm, I tried resetting my password to a new one and still nothing. The top login form box even shows the password you type in (as in not encrypted like the dots you see everywhere else). On the login page it does work right, but I still can't login. Definitely something strange going on here. Something Jay might want to look at.

Are all you guys using IE? Besides Mielr of course. ;-)
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I've tested it extensively in Firefox, Safari, IE6, and IE7 without any login issues. Without more details, it's difficult to help out.

So you fill out the form, hit the login button, and what happens exactly? Nothing at all? Do you get a login confirmation, but then still see the login prompt at the top when you're returned to the page you were viewing?
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This is pretty strange. I'm running both Windows XP Pro and Firefox 2.0.0.12 on my laptop and on my desktop. Seems I can login just fine on my desktop, but my laptops still giving me trouble. I've tried clearing out my cache, cookies, etc. that might have something to do with it. But that didn't work.

On my laptop, I try to log in at the main forum link http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/ (at the top). I enter in my username and password and click remember me. The strange thing about it is my password isn't encrypted like it should be (I see the letters typed in). So I click to LOGIN and it takes me to the login page. I try typing it again in the main section (not at the top) and it just reloads the login page. This time the password is encrypted in both spots where I try it. Doesn't log me in, just seems to reload the page. I try at the top too, but that doesn't work either, just reloads the page.

I've never seen this before, it's really strange. And using your old forum software link, I can login under that board on my laptop. Any ideas?
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Do me a favor, please. Login again, and when you get bumped back to the login page, view the source, find this bit of code all the way at the bottom before the closing body tag...

<!-- Referer: (some URL) -->

And post it. Thanks.
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Here you go. I actually don't see a domain in the referer comment. This is what shows:

<!-- Referer: -->
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yanksno1 said:

Here you go. I actually don't see a domain in the referer comment. This is what shows:

<!-- Referer: -->


That's the problem. For security purposes, the login form processing page checks to make sure the referring page is a page within the forum's URL (http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/ in this case).

I'd heard that IE sometimes has issues reporting the referer, but never Firefox. I'll have to look into this a bit further.
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Possibly an ad-blocker add-in blocking the referer?

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OK thanks Jay. Please keep me posted on what you find out.

Moth3r, all I got running is Flashblock. I even just tried uninstalling that and that made no difference. If this helps at all, my other FF extentions are:

AI Roboform Toobar for Firefox - 6.9.3
Context Search - 0.4.1
Copy Plain Text - 0.3.3
Dictionary Search - 3.0.0
FavIcon Picker 2 - 0.3.4.3
Firefox Companion for Ebay - 1.1.1
Flashblock - 1.5.5
Forcast Fox - 0.9.6
IE Tab - 1.3.3.20070528
PDF Download - 1.0.1.1
Restarter - 1.0
Save Image Folder - 1.2
Save Session - 1.3.1.3
Switch Proxy Tool - 1.4.1
Tiny URL Creator - 1.0.4
Web Developer - 1.1.4