[Annoying] Cookies to access forum from firefox win 10

[BrunoK]

Since a one or two days, I cannot access the Lazarus forum discussion.

Firefox 142.0.1 (64 bits), Windows 10.

When attempting to read, for example, "Can't cast Tpanel to Twi..." in recent, I'm sent to a page "https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/cookies.html#new".

It works from an Android tablet. (E: 19.09.25, not always)

Cookies seem to be enabled in firefox, any suggestion please.

Edit 19.09.2025 :
  Changed subject to Annoying. Methods well showed by others work.
  Also, on my Android tablet, the problem remains with the same work around.

[BrunoK]

Works again, strange.

[Nitorami]

Same for me, with each PC and each browser. Only access is via mobile. Can't test at the moment if it's back to normal.

[jamie]

That happen to me this morning when I got on, but I restarted the browser, and it was ok afterwards.
P.S.
  That's using whatever is in Windows 10 as the Browser so most likely it was an update taking place.
Jamie

[Marc]

Some logfile was not in the log rotation. So it slowly filled up the disk the past years. Which resulted in out of diskspace this morning. And while I was at it, I enforced cookies on almost all access (most bots don't use cookies)

[BrunoK]

Settings :
Firefox on win 10,
privacy -> clean cookies on exit with exception on "https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org"

Reproduce problem :
Enter in firefox, go to above url -> try to open a recent comment -> "https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/cookies.html#new"
Keep aboce tab open then on an new tab, go to the above url and select a recent commment -> everything OK now.

[Nitorami]

Thanks for the hint ! I hoped the problem would go away in a few hours, but it didn't. I would never have had the idea to leave the tab with the cookie message open and reopen the forum in a second tab... problem solved. Works also on windows 11.

[Nitorami]

Oh no, now the same happens on my Android mobile. Whatever I click on the forum's main page, I land on this "Cookies must be enabled" page.... something's really going wrong here.

[jeremiah]

Hope this gets fixed soon, cannot browse the forum and took me fifteen minutes and myriad of hoops just to sign in.

[Lutz Mändle]

The cookie problem bites me too regardless which browser (seamonkey, firefox, internet explorer, edge) and operating system (linux, windows 7, windows 10).

A (nasty) workaround is pasting the link to a forum message direct in the address field of the browser and modify the link (for example) so that:

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1. https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,72217.msg565047/topicseen.html?PHPSESSID=09e81s3co3gd2ltusptqpmoen0#new
2.  

becomes

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1. https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,72217.msg565047
2.  

The problem seems to lie in the changeover from the server www.lazarus-ide.org to forum.lazarus.freepascal.org. If you are already on the forum server then clicking the message links is working.

[Curt Carpenter]

I hope this stabilizes soon.  I've spent more time trying to figure out how to "enable cookies" on my browser (Firefox) than I have in years and have no idea what works sometimes and then doesn't   (Understand the motivation for the change I guess.) 

[Lulu]

Hi, with FireFox I do:
 - open the lazarus forum, enter username and password -> rejected because cookies
 - open a new tab and re-open the lazarus forum, enter username and password: it work!

[Curt Carpenter]

I will try that Lulu.  Sure not having any luck with anything else   
PS:  I'm on Linux, not Win but having same problem with Firefox.

[Martin_fr]

Also, try turning off "tracking protection" => I had one case (on a test system) where that worked.  Once done, I was even able to turn it back on.

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p.s. Whilst I may be "admin", this is not an admin (forum), but an admin-the-server issue. Marc is the one to look at it.

[simone]

I'm currently having the same problem on my Windows PC, but not on my smartphone, which both access the internet through the same Wi-Fi access point. Over the past two days, I've had problems with both, making it almost impossible to access the forum.