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Re: "Cookie Mismatch" when using Gmail.

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I login to Gmail as normal.  I go to Settings / Accounts and Import / Change Account Settings - Google Account Settings.  When I click on that link the URL changes to https://www.google.com/accounts/CookieMismatch and the screen shows.

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To add some more information:

Vidalia + NoScript does not present any cookie issues.  I can access Account Settings.  The problem is when TorButton is used. 

I then used TorButton's preferences to remove all the protections by unticking as much as possible (effectively making TorButton worthless).  I still get the same error! 

I rebooted and cleaned the cache and cookies and still I cannot access the Account Settings aspect of Gmail.  It is as if TorButton per se is the issue irrespective of any security settings it uses. 

In my Firefox cookie section I have cookies for mail.google.com that read: GX, GXSP, gmailchat, TZ, GMAIL_AT, and S. 

Yet Gmail still claims that cookies are not installed. 

I did an about:cache and then searched for torbutton.  There were about 100 entries which include:

extensions.torbutton.regen_google_cookies;false
extensions.torbutton.reset_google_cookies;false
extensions.torbutton.xfer_google_cookies;true

I did change regen_google cookies to true but this did not change anything.  Perhaps one needs to change certain entries in about:config to affect TorButton's interactions with Gmail?

Any ideas from TorButton developers?  Thanks.