The endless irritation of automatic logout...

[DeathJester]

Sick of it.

I open a tab for xda-developers and leave it to load, log in, browse for a while, and go away to make a coffee, sort an issue for a colleague, play Teeter, whatever, and I'm logged out.

How can I stop this? I know it's only a small issue, but when it's every time I come to download a file, view a picture, post a comment, it becomes tiresome.

[orb3000]

I supose that you always click the "remember me" button right?

Strange issue, I never had that on my Opera browser...

[aliensong]

Just enable "remember me" button on your browser, then try again.

[DeathJester]

Remember me won't work; I don't keep a persistent cache (even for cookies).

I understand why a bank would have a session timeout measured in minutes, but a mobile phone forum? Seems like overkill...!

[Kev007]

if you have firefox you could try password manager addons (i use sxipper)
most have autologon features (i think)

[buachaille]

Sick of it.

I open a tab for xda-developers and leave it to load, log in, browse for a while, and go away to make a coffee, sort an issue for a colleague, play Teeter, whatever, and I'm logged out.

How can I stop this? I know it's only a small issue, but when it's every time I come to download a file, view a picture, post a comment, it becomes tiresome.

I agree with you totally. I've never seen this on any site apart from sites where cash transactions are involved. Why do we have to get auto logged out. It's so annoying :mad:

[bigsmitty64]

I agree with you totally. I've never seen this on any site apart from sites where cash transactions are involved. Why do we have to get auto logged out. It's so annoying :mad:
+1 Sooo annoying!

[souljaboy]

Noob either use cookies or stop QQing

[bigsmitty64]

Nothing to do with cookies. I have cookies enabled and get logged out while sitting here on the site. Like the OP said, I open a new tab and look around for a min on another site. Then go back to the xda tab and am frequently logged out. I am using Firefox also. And the fact that this is the only site that it happens on tells me its something on the site, not our settings. I frequent a good number of forums, and it doesn't happen elsewhere.

[gTan64]

BUMP! This is still a problem, even when I check "Remember me".
What's the big idea? Why isn't this configurable? Not even 10 minutes and I'm logged out - I can barely make a full post without have to log in twice.
My new habit of copying everything I just wrote to the clipboard before posting, on top of being tedious, really shouldn't be necessary.

[jaszek]

Stop using Internet Explorer, update Firefox, enable cookies, don't try to be a security freak using programs like CCcleaner often. Haven't had that problem on my mac with chrome, but I do have it happen on my computer at school, but that's because all of the settings are cleared every time I log off.

[buachaille]

I'm thinking that site owners don't care that this behaviour annoys people, which is a shame - as it's profoundly irritating!

Another site I use a lot, which used to leave you logged in, has just started to do this too. Does it save on server load or something?

[cdesai]

Didntt ever happen with me, and i use different versions of chrome on various platforms, alongwith firefox, am logged in always

[espowsong]

on my dreambox for some reason the user or password has been changed from default and i cant figure it out.

[pulser_g2]

I'm thinking that site owners don't care that this behaviour annoys people, which is a shame - as it's profoundly irritating!

Another site I use a lot, which used to leave you logged in, has just started to do this too. Does it save on server load or something?

Yes, it reduces the size of the session table, keeping the site a little faster.

It's a necessary evil unfortunately. Why not allow the single cookie storing session and the "remember me" password hash?

[21031980]

Am pissed off with this too...
I use ie9 and firefox (latest) with default settings. The site logs me off in a few mins.
Never happened to me in the past.. and am a regular user.
I use remember password too but still annoying.