James Lelyveld's Blog

Something that had me staring at my screen in exasperation recently is Firefox’s behaviour with cookies. Specifically cookies with no expiry date, which should disappear when the session ends – however I was closing Firefox, reopening and the cookie was still there. In all the other browsers things were working as expected with the cookie being deleted, just not in Firefox.

As it turns out the culprit was the ‘save my current tabs’ option, if you have this turned on, Firefox saves all your cookies (& now sessionStorage) so you can resume browsing where you left off – essentially it treats it as if your session never ends.

If you turn this option off you’ll see the cookies & sessionStorage being removed as you’d expect.

Recently I’ve been having issues with the remote buttons on my iPhone headphones, the headphones were working fine but the volume control & call answer buttons would only work occasionally and eventually stopped working completely.

This led me to worry that either the headphones were broken or there was something wrong with my phone, fortunately the fix was much simpler. The issue was fluff collecting in the headphone socket, all I had to do to fix it was get a twist & tie and fish the fluff out, voila everything working fine again. If I can get hold of some pressurised air (as used for cleaning keyboards) I’m going to give that a go to give it a more thorough clean.

Thought I’d write quick post in case anyone else is having the same issue.