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I login to Gmail as normal. I go to Settings / Accounts and Import /
Change Account Settings - Google Account Settings. When I click on
that link the URL changes to
https://www.google.com/accounts/CookieMismatch and the screen shows.
We've detected a problem with your cookie settings.
Enable cookies
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browser-specific instructions
<http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=35851&hl=en>.
Clear cache and cookies
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browser's cache and cookies
<http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050>.
Adjust your privacy settings
If clearing your cache and cookies doesn't resolve the problem, try
adjusting your browser's privacy settings. If your settings are on
high, manually add *www.google.com <http://www.google.com>* to your
list of allowed sites. Learn more
<http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39612>
To add some more information:
Vidalia + NoScript does not present any cookie issues. I can access
Account Settings. The problem is when TorButton is used.
I then used TorButton's preferences to remove all the protections by
unticking as much as possible (effectively making TorButton worthless). I
still get the same error!
I rebooted and cleaned the cache and cookies and still I cannot access the
Account Settings aspect of Gmail. It is as if TorButton per se is the
issue irrespective of any security settings it uses.
In my Firefox cookie section I have cookies for mail.google.com that read:
GX, GXSP, gmailchat, TZ, GMAIL_AT, and S.
Yet Gmail still claims that cookies are not installed.
I did an about:cache and then searched for torbutton. There were about 100
entries which include:
extensions.torbutton.regen_google_cookies;false
extensions.torbutton.reset_google_cookies;false
extensions.torbutton.xfer_google_cookies;true
I did change regen_google cookies to true but this did not change
anything. Perhaps one needs to change certain entries in about:config to
affect TorButton's interactions with Gmail?
Any ideas from TorButton developers? Thanks.
