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Edge Session cookies don't expire

Anonymous
2023-09-14T16:01:23+00:00

Session cookies with an Expires: 0 value are supposed to expire after the session ends which means the browser closes.

Edge does not garbage collect these even if the last Edge process was closed. This is problematic.

Is the Expirateion of session cookies governed by a setting?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-19T06:36:31+00:00

    Thanks. One of the reasons is that Edge never closes. At least not on my Windows 10 installation.

    How to forcibly close all edge processes

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-20T03:02:58+00:00

    Hello Johannes Kingma.

    Thanks for your reply.

    If you mean only all msedge.exe processs. You can try to access this website turn off these two features and then check whether it works.

    edge://settings/system

    If there is anything not clear, please do not hesitate to let me know.

    Best Regards,

    Tommy-MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-15T06:04:28+00:00

    Hello Johannes Kingma.

    Welcome to Microsoft Community.

    Regarding to your information I assume that you have some issues of Edge's Cookie Recycling Mechanism.

    Expires seems is an HTTP head for controlling the Cache**.**

    The issues on development is out of reach of the response support community. It is more suitable for publishing on Microsoft Learn,

    you can click on "Ask a question", there are experts who can provide more professional solutions in that place.  Here is a link to the forum where you can raise specific scenarios and share your idea to help solve the problem.

    Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Q&A

    I won't be able to help you, but I'll leave that question open in case one of our amazing volunteers has ideas for you.

    Best Regards,

    Tommy-MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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