Now have to sign in every time to forum

No not outright. But it was obvious from some of the responses that it was implied.

By the way. I didn't imply necessarily that you did.

while I am not a Harvard, Yale or MIT PhD. I post from my use and experience in using the forums, or the product.

>Yet people here either thought it was funny, or was lying.

How do you know what people thought? I ask because I don't recall anyone calling you a liar.

Maybe your problem is that you don't explain very clearly what you want to say, and that you also tend to repeat the same things in differents threads.

My Laptop PB17 before it died on SeaMonkey (equiv to Thunderbird and FireFox Rolled into one) I never had to sign in. But I had a message come up to fill in name the email address the screen name. Once I filled n that form and made sure I checked remember me. I to never had to re-sign in.

Yet people here either thought it was funny, or was lying. Now you know even after the swear that cookies are set to session only cookies if you do a certain thing in the right order then they are not.
OH , my systems are 10.4.11.

This is a funny new angle to the problem.

While on vacation, I have been using a laptop with Vista and the latest Explorer version, and every time I have visited the forums I have appeared as a guest. Then, when I have logged in, I have always been invited to link my adobeforums and Adobe accounts. I have refused every time because I wanted to get back home and do everything in my Mac, which is my main computer.

Well, I got back home last night and found that I had not switched off my Mac before leaving. I opened the Comments... forum, and saw that I had been correctly logged in. I attributed this to the fact that I had not switched off my machine.

I switched off my Mac before going to bed, and switched it on again this morning. I used my bookmark to come to the Comments... forum and was automatically logged in!!! No invitation to link accouns, nothing. I have closed my browser, reopened it, etc, and nothing; no change at all. However, if I try to come in using my laptop, I am received as a guest.

I wish somebody could explain to me what is happening here.

Mac OS X 10.3.9, Firefox 2.0.0.20.

(Double posting)

... or not. B)

>add my vote to haveing it returned to "permanent."

Did you read the FAQ messages and the other discussions here?

Nothing will work like it did before until the new forum software is activated

There is supposed to be a test version in March and the new version in April

Until then, figure you will have to login every time

Add my name to the list of those whose login does not
persist when closing my (IE7) browser.
And, add my vote to haveing it returned to "permanent."

well I've went to the Faq trying to find that link I went to to sign up that caused me to stay signed in even after computer shut down. and And it appears it is gone for good. In fact Live looked in all the help and all the main topic for the Forums announcement's. It as if it were a ghost.

Since when do people read FAQs?

Seems the only people who do are often the people who need them the least, if only to direct the Anti-FAQers where to go to find an answer.