Firefox session cookies

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This is apparently by design. Check out this Bugzilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443354

Firefox has a feature where you close Firefox and it offers to save all your tabs, and then you restore the browser and those tabs come back. That’s called session restore. What I didn’t realize is that it’ll also restore all the session cookies for those pages too! It treats it like you had never closed the browser.

This makes sense in the sense that if your browser crashed you get right back to where you were, but is a little disconcerting for web devs used to session cookies getting cleared. I’ve got some old session cookies from months ago that were set by sites I always have open in tabs.

To test this out, close all the tabs in your browser, then close the browser and restart it. I think the session cookies for your site should clear in that case. Otherwise you’d have to turn off session restore.

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