Forum login names messed up

[Guest]

Just fyi in case anybody else is seeing this, something's gone wrong in an Adobe forum s/w update in the past couple of days that is messing with people's login name / account names, end result being that displayed user names in messages are either corrupted or jibberish or some variation thereof.

There are also issues with carriage returns going wonky while entering msgs.

Some workarounds (involving multi-step login/logout procedures) have been suggested in various threads on the Forum Comments section, here:

http://forums.adobe.com/community/general/forum_comments

although it doesn't sound like there's a single solution that works in all cases, at least not as of Nov. 18 a.m.

Sheila  (aka AxialInfo)

[Guest]

Oh, and another reminder, in case you've been hit with the "logged out while posting" problem and thereby lost your carefully crafted missive that you just spend untold minutes composing.

Although this happens with annoying frequency on the Adobe forums, it's not just Adobe that is afflicted by this problem.

The good news is that there are a couple of addons for Firefox that will avoid losing "form" entries when composing in a browser. The one that I'm familiar with is Lazarus, from the same folks who created the brilliant InterClue add-on for Firefox, here:

http://lazarus.interclue.com/

[Arnis Gubins]

The maintenance release on Monday night was supposed to allow a persistent cookie so users wouldn't get logged out in the middle of posting a message. Things apparently haven't gone as well as expected. Glitches are being investigated, so if you are seeing some phunnies with your login or login name, please report them in the Forum Comments section.

Arnis Gubins

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