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Why do several of my normally used sites tell me that I am not set up to accept cookies?

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I have checked and rechecked this. I have Firefox set to accept cookies but several of my normally used sites give me a page telling me by browser is not set up to accept cookies. I just tried to log in to my silhouettes.com account and got this. I even clicked on the "show cookies" under Privacy and it lists silhouettes.com.

Please, someone, help! I have Googled this and I have all my settings right so I don't know where to go from here.

I have checked and rechecked this. I have Firefox set to accept cookies but several of my normally used sites give me a page telling me by browser is not set up to accept cookies. I just tried to log in to my silhouettes.com account and got this. I even clicked on the "show cookies" under Privacy and it lists silhouettes.com. Please, someone, help! I have Googled this and I have all my settings right so I don't know where to go from here.

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I can't figure out why it's like pulling my own teeth to get a response out of this forum. This cookies business is a problem for me and I don't understand what's going on. Would sure be nice if I could get some help. Thank you.

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Nikilet, all answers on this forum are provided by volunteers or, like myself, other users who have experienced the same problem. So, yes, it can be a frustrating experience getting a response.

As to your problem, I've had similar experiences with different solutions/different results. Sometimes it's a timeout situation - the website is experiencing heavy use and doesn't respond quickly enough resulting in FF timing out. There is a way to change the timeout settings but I'm not familiar with the details. A search should turn up instructions. Otherwise simply trying again a few minutes or hours later or at a different time of day may be sufficient.

There are a handful of sites that I've found never seem to work in FF. I give up and use another browser for those. It may not be a solution within FF but it solves the problem of accessing the site.

Of course, it could be the fault of the website rather than FF.

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Thank you for the reply. Maybe I'll try just going to a regular forum and see if anyone has any ideas. I doubt it's the timeout situation because with these sites, it's the same story every time I access them -- any time I access them.