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Why do I have to clear cookies every 3 days because YOUR Firefox is screwed? Do I need to go back to Explorer again?

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I'll try to open a news page and get an error message Sorry, Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

According to your forum, I need to clear cookies. It works, but I then have to reload passwords and settings, and repeat the whole thing 3 days later? if Firefox isn't going to fix the problem, just tell me and I'll stop using it completely.

I'll try to open a news page and get an error message Sorry, Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit. According to your forum, I need to clear cookies. It works, but I then have to reload passwords and settings, and repeat the whole thing 3 days later? if Firefox isn't going to fix the problem, just tell me and I'll stop using it completely.

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You may have security or cleanup software that messes with files in the Firefox Profile Folder is the cookies get corrupted.