Is there a limit to how long I can stay logged in?

Not sure, but I suspect it has to do with the occasional server maintenance for the website.

I prefer Opera GX.

Looks interesting!

I use just regular Opera, but might give GX a chance someday.

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…)

I like that we have so many browsers to choose from.

I just wish every web page would work with all of them.

(I'm guessing that's never going to happen, though.)

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.

<rant>
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 :person_facepalming: . 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.
</rant>

Ah, Edge… the retarded browser that doesn’t even let you save webpages or view images directly.

<still wishing for an eyeroll emoji>

Will we ever get one?

Yes, I saw and understood your post.

Even if most of the browsers are Chromium-based, I'm glad that there are so many to choose from.

Each one works a little bit differently, and I like having the choices that we have.

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.

Hopefully Mr. Admin will be able to advise.

+1

He usually watches this sub-forum.

Maybe he could make the cookie last longer than 24 days?

For what it’s worth, I need to re-log in every week. I assumed it was the same for everyone, but maybe not.

That is why I made this thread. I noticed this behavior a long while ago but finally decided maybe I should ask about it.

> Is there a limit to how long I can stay logged in?

I have not noticed any login timeout limit in Firefox on iMac

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.

Thanks sb. Let see how this change works out.

I don’t think the change did anything. I logged into BLF on my smartphone and after a week I noticed I was logged out.

Could it be related to something else like logging into BLF from multiple devices at once?

Possibly related to your smartphone still having the old session time length. I’m not sure if it updates the session length immediately or if it’s the next time after you login. Also with a smartphone there could be other factors at play, possibly the browser interfering with or manipulating cookies?