Chrome doesn t delete session cookies

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I m trying to set session cookie in javascript like this   document cookie    name alex  path      But Chrome doesn t delete it even if I quit browser and launch it again    I checked in Firefox and Opera and both work as intended - they delete session cookie on browser exit   Is Chrome just ignoring expiration rules   I checked in multiple OSes and found out that session cookie gets removed on Chrome in Windows XP and Ubuntu  but NOT in Mac OSX Lion

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I just had this issue   I noticed that even after I closed my browser I had many Chrome processes running   Turns out these were each from my Chrome extension     Under advanced settings I unchecked  Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed  and my session cookies started working as they should   Still a pain in the rear for all of us developers that have been coding expecting that session cookies would get cleared when the user is done browsing

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I just had the same problem with a cookie which was set to expire on  Browsing session end    Unfortunately it did not so I played a bit with the settings of the browser   Turned out that the feature that remembers the opened tabs when the browser is closed was the root of the problem   The feature is named  On startup  -  Continue where I left off   At least on the current version of Chrome    This also happens with Opera and Firefox

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The solution would be to use sessionStorage  FYI  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web API Window sessionStorage

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I just had this problem of Chrome storing a Session ID but I do not like the idea of disabling the option to continue where I left off  I looked at the cookies for the website and found a Session ID cookie for the login page  Deleting that did not correct my problem  I search for the domain and found there was another Session ID cookie on the domain  Deleting both Session ID cookies manually fixed the problem and I did not close and reopen the browser which could have restored the cookies

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This can be caused by having Chrome set to Continue where you left off   Further reading  Bug report  Chrome is not deleting temporary cookies     i e  not logging me out automatically when I close all browser Windows Issue 128513 in Chromium  Session Cookies not cleared when Chrome processes closed Issue 128567  Session only cookies don t delete

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If you set the domain for the php session cookie  browsers seem to hold on to it for 30 seconds or so  It doesn t seem to matter if you close the tab or browser window   So if you are managing sessions using something like the following it may be causing the cookie to hang in the browser for longer than expected   ini set  session cookie domain    www domain com      The only way I ve found to get rid of the hanging cookie is to remove the line of code that sets the session cookie s domain  Also watch out for session set cookie params   function  Dot prefixing the domain seems to have no bearing on the issue either   This might be a php bug as php sends a session cookie  i e  PHPSESSID b855ed53d007a42a1d0d798d958e42c9  in the header after the session has been destroyed  Or it might be a server propagation issue but I don t thinks so since my test were on a private servers

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I had to both  unchecked  under advanced settings of Chrome      Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed   Continue where I left off    On startup

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Have you tried to Remove hangouts extension in Google Chrome  because it forces chrome to keep running even you close all the windows   I was also facing the problem but it resolved now

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Google chrome has a problem if you set and unset cookie improper way  This is php code  Thought this will give you idea   Set cookie  setcookie  userLoggedIn   1  0  PATH     Wrong way and will not work  notice PATH is missing   setcookie  userLoggedIn   0  time  -3600     Correct way fixes issue on google chrome  setcookie  userLoggedIn   0  time  -3600  PATH

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A simple alternative is to use the new sessionStorage object  Per the comments  if you have  continue where I left off  checked  sessionStorage will persist between restarts

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This maybe because Chrome is still running in background after you close the browser  Try to disable this feature by doing following    Open chrome   settings  Click  Show advanced settings      Navigate down to System section and disable  Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed    This will force Chrome to close completely and then it will delete session cookies    However  I think Chrome should check and delete previous session cookies at it starting instead of closing

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Go to chrome   settings content cookies search cookies  Enable Clear cookies and site data when you quit Chrome    Worked for me

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I had the same problem with  document cookie  in Windows 8 1  the only way that Chrome deletes the cookie was shutting it from task manager  not a really fancy way   so I decided to manage the cookies from the backend or use something like  js-cookie

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