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Ask HN: Can You Log into HN with Firefox on Android?
4 points by sethammons on Nov 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
This morning, I've been unable to log into HN from my Android on Firefox. Anyone else experiencing this? I click 'login' at the top of the page, paste in my username and password, click the login button, the page re-loads to the front page of HN and I continue to be logged out. This might be the first time attempting to log in since I installed the latest Android update. Not sure if that is related.

Firefox 68.2.1, Pixel 2, Android 10



Yes this has been happening intermittently to me for the past 3 weeks. Haven't determined the pattern yet but sometimes I will notice I AM logged in.


So it is NOT just me! Whew.

@dang, not sure if this is your territory or not. I'm not sure of how to file a bug report :)


Update: turned out I could not log into any website! I cleared cookies, deleted all private data, turned on tracking, ensured cookies were enabled. Not worked. After reinstalling Firefox, I'm back in business. Fwiw, I also have had Firefox lock up twice this week on my laptop. I'm thinking that Firefox just is not as stable as Chrome :(


I'm on Fennec running Firefox 68.2.0 esr on Android 9. No extensions installed.

Tried logging in. No issues faced. Working find for me.


This has been happening me for about a week on Firefox Android too. When I restart Firefox it somehow works.


No issue at all with Firefox 68.2.1, OnePlus7, Android 10. Maybe you have some extension that is messing with your login?


Thanks for the suggestion. No add ons / extensions. Just one theme that changes the color scheme called "Default 1.0 - A theme with the operating system color scheme" which I think is just a normal default.




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