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Bookmarklet and PHP to prevent Shibboleth-related Firefox Lockouts

Reason this might be useful. /* * Remove all _shibstate cookies if there are too many of them. This usually * occurs due to Firefox session restores. Unfortunately we don’t know which is * the active state cookie, so we have to delete them all, but this is a lessor * crime than locking the

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Uh-Oh: Firefox’s Unique Session Cookie Behavior

By now, Opera’s invention of restoring tabs automatically is available in most browsers, but unlike every other browser, Firefox’s restored tabs retain session cookies for the domains of the saved tabs Firefox restores all session cookies as if the browser were never closed. This is handy in some ways, but dangerous in others: It’s fooling

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