Every morning I power up my computer, and after a few quick looks elsewhere I log in on BLF.
It’s going to be like that till I go to bed. Before I power down I use CCleaner to flush my system.
If the computer has to run overnight (for converting a movie) I pull out the data cable.
I would hate it if someone took over during my absence. To mine Bitcoins, or things like that.
Once in a (long) while, after having run some errands or so, I notice that I’m logged out of BLF.
I’m still “tuned in” on BLF, but I’ll have to log in again. All other settings are still the same.
Using a very old computer, with an even older OS, and Firefox on unlimited fibreglass cable.
I remember the good ol’ days, when webpage designers actually gave a shat about their code, and tried at least minimally making it compatible across platforms, and problems weren’t just dismissed with a let-them-eat-cake type “Use a different browser”.
Remember Exploder, and how most (decent) webpages had probably half the content being “<!—[if IE4]>” and similar conditionals for, like, everything, just to fix the hideously noncompliant ways that Exploder worked?
“Frontpage ain’t done ’til Netscape won’t run…”
People worked hard to fix that, and it wasn’t even Netscape’s fault, because it was compliant, and FP-generated html wasn’t. (Eg, its nested-table “formatting”. Open 8 tables, but only close 7.)
Today? “Use a different browser…”
Why even bother with standards, then? Just declare a free-for-all, and let the most “popular” browsers determine what’s acceptable. (Ie, the majority of browsers which all use Chromium. Some choice…)
Actually, that was kinda my point, that we don’t have all that many browsers out there, as that more and more of them are using the same rendering engine under the hood (ie, Chromium).
So what “works” for all those, might not work well if at all on any holdouts.
Then you’ll essentially only have 1 browser, but with different “skins” on top.
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With Edge based on Chromium we now have a chance the standard gets accepted not only in browsers. As someone who had to design a company signature, I could have gone to Redmond armed. Flexbox? Thunderbird - check, GMail - check, Outlook on Phone - check, Outlook on Win … f*ck. It does not only mess up incoming mails; you can write code directly into Outlook and it doesn’t take it and put that into a damn mail, but converts it to its own crap . However … that’s the reason why all companies have crap, non-responsive signatures. It’s Outlook on Windows. Or was. Hope the situation has or will improve.
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YES! This has been driving me nuts for ages! I use Chrome on both desktop and mobile, and half the time I click a PM notification link I end up logged out. Especially annoying on mobile because the login boxes don’t autofill properly for some reason.
Hi everyone, sorry I just saw this thread. I think I found a way to increase the session lifetime. For now I set it to 60 days, let’s see if that works. However, I suspect that some might be having issues with browsers or other locally installed software that are deleting or modifying or blocking cookies, so this change won’t be of any help to them.