Google Chrome loses authentication cookies on exit

I'm using Windows 7 Enterprise (64bit) and have tried both the current 2.x stable and 3.x beta versions of Chrome. Both of them lose any and all authentication cookies when I close the browser. This behavior persists after rebooting. Saved passwords remain, and bookmarks retain their icons, unlike in this SU question

My suspicion is that there may be a permissions issue of some sort but really I don't know where to start.

How can I get Chrome to remember my logins?

Rob Allen

Posted 2009-09-22T19:30:12.613

Reputation: 1 849

actually the computer date was set to 2012, that caused the whole issue. – Andres SK – 2011-01-13T05:13:23.717

Answers

Uninstalling, then reinstalling did the trick. Not sure if I forgot this step the first time, but for the reinstall, I right clicked on the installer and ran as admin explicitly (even though my account is an admin account).

Rob Allen

Posted 2009-09-22T19:30:12.613

Reputation: 1 849

Uninstalling then reinstalling didn't fix it for me, but manually deleting the cookies file did. – Hardwareguy – 2011-05-13T15:50:01.103

Go to

C:\Documents and Settings\ YOUR USER NAME \Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\

Find file 'Cookies' -- Delete it. Restart Chrome.

Andres SK

Posted 2009-09-22T19:30:12.613

Reputation: 245

You did see this is over a year old and already answered, right? – oKtosiTe – 2010-11-30T22:37:43.027

Deleting this cookie file resolved the problem for me. – Steve – 2011-01-30T01:38:13.793

1@oKtosiTe this answer is correct. I had this exact issue and the accepted answer was wrong (probably because the user settings aren't deleted when you uninstall chrome). – Hardwareguy – 2011-05-13T15:49:23.710

Fair enough. @Hardwareguy – oKtosiTe – 2011-05-16T21:00:07.033