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Google Reader Cookie blocks itself !!!

August 4, 2008 at 4:44 pm · Posted On Tools & Utilities

I moved from bloglines to Google reader about a year and half back. I really enjoy using this RSS Reader from Google due to the good usability and the additional features like shared on a post basis which is not present in bloglines at the time I switched.

For the past two days, I am seeing some strange problem in Google Reader. When one of the cookie by name reader_offline gets set to the browser, only the top band of the reader gets loaded. I am not even able to sign out of the service to re login to fix the issue. It is necessary that I need to remove that particular cookie myself to make it work once again.

This problem happens in the latest firefox 3.0. It works perfectly fine in Internet Explorer 7. I have removed the Better GReader plug-in too which I had previously.

If anyone has experienced similar problem, do let me know how to get rid of this.

Check out the attached image on how much it gets loaded with the cookie present in the browser.