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What I've found, is that if I close Firefox with open tabs and have it save my tabs, I stay logged in when I open it again. If there's no tabs open and/or I just close without saving tabs, I get logged out.

My work computer with IE6 still stays logged in without a problem. I suspect it is because I didn't use it during the Black Friday weekend.

My home computer with Firefox was NOT remembering my login between sessions (and by that I mean between closing and opening Firefox). I suspect it is because I WAS using that PC during Black Friday weekend.

I tried deleting cookies on the Firefox machine but no change. They always re-appeared as session-only cookies. I think I have it fixed now but to do it I had to install a cookie editor plugin for Firefox and manually set the expire on the adobeforums cookies to a year from now. So far, so good.

I have to say that I have no idea on the cookie issue. Some days I have the totally opposite experience, at least on my Windows machine with IE6. I can have a browser window open and be logged in and then I open a second window and I have to log in again.

The first day of the change (Black Friday as we might want to call it), the cookie was changed from Permenant to Time based. But there seemed to be some issues with the server cluster. So they changed it to browser session. All I can think of echoes back to what Ramón said. Maybe those of us who tried to log in while it was set to time based all got forced to log out and back in, but you were not online at that time and started up again since the browser based and you have not been forced to log out. But that is only a guess.

Thanks JC, Ramón and John. One of the computers in which I stay logged hadn't been used for a month, and the other was on all the time, but Firefox was never launched during that period.

What RGC said in #63

This all started (in my time zone) on a Friday after I left work at 5pm

I got home and checked the Encore and Premiere forums... and had to associate my login... and ever since, at home, I have had to log in after every time I exit my browser

Here at work, where I checked the Acrobat and Photoshop forums on the following Monday... I have never had to log in

It seems clear to me (as I have said before, in another thread) that my home computer had the cookies set to Zero time, which the cookies where I am now were not changed

I will presume (hope!!!) that the new forum software will use persistent cookies

Claudio,

It probably means you didn't log in during the change window and you missed having your cookies re-set on the computers that now keep you logged in. I bet if you clear all cookies in those computers now, you would be logged every time you quit your browser.

And the fact that I remain logged in one computer but not in another is irrelevant?

Associating the accounts should have no effect on the current forum system for you. It doesn't change any cookies. It doesn't change your name. It doesn't change your password. All it does is sets an internal flag on your account that says that you (XXXX) are the same person as (YYYY) in the Adobe ID system so that your messages will have your name on them when the new system launches.

If you do not associate your accounts all of the messages you have posted here in the Web Crossing system will appear in the new system as being posted by a "Guest" user with no way to attribute them to yourself.

The whole point of my message #56 above is that I really do not what to do. In two different machines I stay logged in in spite of closing my browsers and even through complete daily shutdowns. In the third I am always received as a guest and I am always shown the "invitation" to associate my two accounts, which I haven't done.

Can someone in the know explain to me in plain words what can I expect to happen with my accounts if I associate them in the only computer that kicks me off? Or if I should perhaps do it in one of those in which I am always logged in?

Extra? yes. Remember? no need.