Firefox 22 to Stop Eating Third-Party Cookies

Capybara drivers will usually delete all cookies after each scenario. If you need to lose cookie data in the middle of a scenario, you can do this:

browser = Capybara.current_session.driver.browser
if browser.respond_to?(:clear_cookies)

...

Cookies without an expiration timestamp are called "session cookies". [1] They should only be kept until the end of the browsing session.

However, when Chrome or Firefox are configured to reopen tabs from last time upon start, they will keep se...

Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, [there is a better way that doesn't involve downgrading](https://makandracards.com/makandra/1575-how-to-install-an-frozen-version-of-firefox-for-...

We’re making changes to how :visited works in Firefox. We’re not sure what release this will be part of yet and the fixes are still making their way through code review, but we wanted to give a heads up to people as soon as we understood how we wa...

Why secure-only cookies used to be necessary

Cookies have an optional secure flag. It tells the browser to not send the cookie f...

Background

Rails offers several methods to manage three types of different cookies along with a [session storage for cookies](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_controller_ove...

When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default.
However, you can tell curl to re-use cookies received earlier (or forge your own cookies).

There are 2 command line switches you need to use:

• -c will write cookies to...

To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using. Use the step below according to your driver.

Rack::Test

Given /^I have a "([^\"]+)" cookie set to "([^\"]+)"$/ do |key, value|
  he...

Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying.

In order to remedy this, version 0.5.0 of our geordi gem comes with a script that helps you create an unchanging ...

Expiration of Rails sessions

By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window.

To change this edit your config/initializers/session_store.rb like this:

ActionController::Base.session = ...