Now have to sign in every time to forum

Wouldn't that be just two extra clicks, plus remembering and entering correctly your ID and password in a slow site?

Since logging in is just two extra clicks, what's all the fuss about?

1. I haven't associated my two accounts in any machine.

2. In my laptop with Vista and Explorer, every time I come in to these forums, I am received as a guest.

3. In my Mac (details above), I am always logged in automatically.

4. I have just discovered that in my wife's laptop, with XP and Explorer, I am also logged in automatically.

Go figure.

> "I always quit-out of each application individually before shutting down."

Yep. Me too. Always. 2 decades of ingrained behavior.

I suppose force quitting Firefox leaves some of the session-specific preferences in place...

Launch browser
Navigate to Abobeforums
Log-in, and session-limited cookie gets inserted.
Force quit browser
Cookie doesn't detect that the session actually ended.
Relaunch browser, restore session.
Navigate to Adobeforums
Cookie is read by the forum script as though the session hasn't ended, thus it still allows user to engage forums as though user never ended session.

I know all of that is kind of stupidly obvious, but I don't know enough of how cookie writing works to really understand what's going on though. I just know that it works!

:)

You may be on to something, Kath: I always quit-out of each application individually before shutting down.

It's just an ingrained habit I suppose but it does mean that if you changed have settings they will still be that way when you relaunch.

I don't know - I just don't get how shutting down the machine doesn't log me out, but quitting the browser does. Also, I use Safari more than Firefox, so I didn't think about that. I just snarled a bit about that silly business of quitting browsers to install the latest version of Flash, wasn't thinking about forums.

But maybe there's something in that - the automatic shut-down of apps when you shut down the machine, maybe it's more of a force-quit and that's different from a quit ??????

After seeing how the "Force Quit" & "Restore Previous Session" works, I have to wonder about what's happening to those folks who shut down their browser properly, and return here without having to log back in.

Is it somehow a case of their session cookies not being written to as being "expired at end of session"? And if that's true, then there might be some way of tweaking the cookie file so it works that way on purpose, for those of us who DO get logged out if we close our browser application properly.

Hmm...

Hey Kath!

Your tales of shutting down, then booting back up and returning to the forums without having to log in inspired me to try something.

I was just here in this thread, and logged in and reading your Reply #50. I did a Command + Option + ESC to bring up the "Force Quit" window. I chose to force quit Firefox.

When I relaunched Firefox, the little window comes up asking whether I want to restore the previous session or start a new session.

Choosing "Restore previous session" brought me right back to this thread, and I was logged in, ready to type this reply.

Nice little workaround!

:)

That's not my experience, Selby. Associated the two on one machine, and after a while I now stay logged in on three unless I quit the browser. What is bizarre is that switching off the machine does *not* have this effect, even though presumably the browser, like everything else, quits before shut-down.

However weird it sounds, it's true. The machine I switch off every night stays logged in. Another one didn't when I had to quit all browsers to do an install (yawn).

As the OP, I thought I should update this as I discovered something that may explain some of the variation in behaviors that people are seeing.

I connect to the forums through 2 machines. On the machine on which I associated my Adobe id with my forum id I now always have to log in.

However, on the other machine, I continue to be automatically logged on every time. So I'm guessing that on that machine the cookie remained undisturbed since I had already been through the dialog re my Adobe id.

Selby