Those cookies seem to expire, if I try to go straight to the page after a while I am guest.
I'll attempt to answer several queries at once here.
Cookies don't expire until 28 days or more after creation and will occasionally be extended. If they appear to be deleted or expiring then something is deleting them, they don't just vanish unexpectedly, and it won't be the website either (which has been up for 58+ days with no problems) nor should a connection loss have any effect.
Specifically logging out will though make you log on again and you really only need to do that if you don't want someone else on your terminal using it.
You may have discovered also that once you've logged on a few times, the logon requirement becomes much simpler. The cookies will (should) survive shutting down the terminal and/or closing the browser and restarting if everything is set up correctly.
No cookie(s) and you become a guest as observed. Also, if you repeatedly get told your Memorable Phrase is incorrect (which, being easily remembered you won't get wrong) then you are almost certainly not setting any cookies in the first place and you'll never be able to log on.
Both of you affected are using FF32 so maybe it's not set up correctly? Cookie phobia on the browser developers part seems to mean we'll delete them if we get the chance without you knowing...
To set FF up to keep cookies, open the
Tools, Options menu. Then select
Privacy, and under
History change the dropdown list to read
Use Custom Settings for History. Then check
Accept Cookies from Sites and change
Keep Until to read
they expire. Then select
Exceptions. Enter
mydslwebstats.co.uk in the text box and select
Allow. Then also add and Allow
www.mydslwebstats.co.uk Then
Close and then
Okay the original dialogue box. Without these settings you may well be deleting cookies.
Make sure you don't have extensions like Self Destructing Cookies or the like that will still delete cookies.
The Memorable Phrase is NOT a password! It's just what it says,
a phrase that you can easily remember. It would usually be plain text like 'I love carrots' or 'dogs hate cats' or whatever but not a character concatenation that is impossible for you to memorise. Now you have mentioned that, the reason FF is treating it as a password is because the box you are typing it into is defined as a password box, hence the hidden characters. So I've changed it to a text box, can't say I'd really noticed though as I can easily remember my memorable phrase....
Personally, I don't trust LastPass or it's ilk in the same way that I no longer trust Roboform that I had been using since I found out that it sends your supposedly private master password back to its creators!
Hope that helps