Went to my discourse this morning and I was logged out. I went to login and I got an “Unknown Error”. I tried to reset password or use a magic login email, but got a “Forbidden” message. After some investigation and rebuild on the backend side I determined this was entirely a front-end issue. Other…

It seems to have resolved itself, for now…, after a second clearing of local data and a complete restart of Firefox. Still very strange.

It was too good to be true. It only lasted about an hour. Now the “You were logged out” message has returned.

[image] Apreche: nt suspicion is that a Firefox Sounds likely. I would try that.

Hi @Apreche :slightly_smiling_face: Did you manage to track down which extension it was?

I honestly can’t say. The problem has been gone for some time now, and I have all my usual add-ons enabled.

Mysteriously Logged Out

Apreche (Scott Rubin) February 17, 2022, 8:59pm 4

Current suspicion is that a Firefox add-on is the culprit. Now using the process of elimination to find out.

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