Mystery!!

oldwiring

As I may delve into several groups more than once a day, I generally am too lazy of forgetful to log out. An odd thing happened this morning. As usual I had not logged out of MSE and other forums, but I had to log in again to all of them.

Can anyone suggest a reason why this happened?

I use XP SP2 and Firefox.

espresso

oldwiring wrote:

As I may delve into several groups more than once a day, I generally am too lazy of forgetful to log out. An odd thing happened this morning. As usual I had not logged out of MSE and other forums, but I had to log in again to all of them.

Can anyone suggest a reason why this happened?

I use XP SP2 and Firefox.

I think that you will find that it automatically logs you out after a preset period of inactivity. You could always experiment!

HTH

oldwiring

espresso the period was not as great as sometimes, and it was with other (not MSE) forums that use variuos hosts, not all v bulletin. Surely they wouldn't all have the same inactivity log outs.

ABH_3

oldwiring wrote:

espresso the period was not as great as sometimes, and it was with other (not MSE) forums that use variuos hosts, not all v bulletin. Surely they wouldn't all have the same inactivity log outs.

More than likely 'cookies' that were set to 'timeout' after a set period of time.

HTH

oldwiring

ABH wrote:

More than likely 'cookies' that were set to 'timeout' after a set period of time.

HTH

From diferent sources as I have said- all at thr same time??

Zahc

System clock gone haywire?

ABH_3

oldwiring wrote:

From diferent sources as I have said- all at thr same time??

Surely it depends upon what you've installed to make FF work as it does. For instance in Opera, I can have my last 'session' start, or I can create a session and have that start up with the browser, which I often do. As a result I log into 4 forums all at the same time. Therefore it seems reasonable to assume that those cookies would all expire at roughly the same time.

Is there anything in Event Viewer that may explain the situation?

peter_the_piper

I find that if I do a cleanout with Ccleaner I have to relog in all my sites, any help??

Wally_2

peter_the_piper wrote:

I find that if I do a cleanout with Ccleaner I have to relog in all my sites, any help??

Untick the boxes for deleting cookies and history, that might help.

oldwiring

ABH wrote:

Surely it depends upon what you've installed to make FF work as it does. For instance in Opera, I can have my last 'session' start, or I can create a session and have that start up with the browser, which I often do. As a result I log into 4 forums all at the same time. Therefore it seems reasonable to assume that those cookies would all expire at roughly the same time.

Is there anything in Event Viewer that may explain the situation?

FF was a vanilla install. How do you access Event-viewr, please?

ABH_3

oldwiring wrote:

FF was a vanilla install. How do you access Event-viewr, please?

It should already be installed, click Start\Run type 'eventvwr' press Ok or Enter, whatever is your preference. It should popup, then click on Applications and organise them by time. Check the time you had the mystery occurance, double click the entries and they will each show an 'EventID' there should also be a 'more information' option which you can click and be taken to the microsoft site where they explain such entries. Alternatively, copy the EventID here or the associated error text and someone shall come up with an answer. Or you can try looking here: http://www.eventid.net/ for a possible cause.

HTH