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Windows XP
Mozilla Firefox
I dont have to log in for a very long time

1. Suse Linux 10.1 and 10.3
2. actual Firefox
3. Never since the registration

Well recently I have had to log in a couple of times. Same specifications as above -

relyt12101 wrote:

1. Windows XP (to get specific, I use Media Center Edition)
2. Firefox 2(.0.0.9)
3. I rarely log on. Most of the time I don't need to log on. I can't remember the last time I got logged off, without me doing it manually.

Glad to help!

But with the current version of Firefox (2.0.0.11)

JANUARY 24 EDIT: Yeah, now almost every time I go on the site I have to log on.

Last edited by relyt12101 (2008-01-24 17:28:10)

1. Windows XP
2. Internet Explorer
3. I don't usually have to log on unless my computer was turned off (like today), but every few weeks I have to re-login. 

Although I never seem to need to login again on my Mac, I have to log in frequently on my Linux box at work, running firefox
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

First of all, I have a Windows XP, and frequently use Firefox. I seem to have no trouble at all with my logging in and out; Actually, when I log in once, I stay logged in forever until I select log out. I didn't even know that other Scratchers were having trouble with this, I find my situation very handy.

1) MacOS X "Tiger" 10.4.11
2) Firefox 3 beta2 ;] (and, if its what I'm in at the time, FF2, FF1.5, NN9(RIP), Camino, Flock, Shiira, Opera, Safari3, Bumper Car, iCab, OmniWeb....and yes, I'm that Lynx entry in your request log. Heh heh.) (And no, there isn't a point to trying to view this site in Lynx. Tee hee.)
3) Login required on what seems to be a per-task basis rather than time. If certain activities have occurred, gotta log in. If not, I stay logged in. Less lately than it was being a few weeks ago.

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As a PHP developer myself, I'd be *very* interested in the diagnosis once you track it down. I'm quite curious as to how the Java install on a Mac would differ enough from others or be able to reach outside its sandbox in such a manner as to expire the session between the browser and the server... But if that is indeed the culprit, it would be very good to know about!

All that being said, I wouldn't sweat it from a user-experience standpoint. You guys have a jam-up platform that rocks in multiple strata of coolness. I don't mind logging into a good site like yours more than once a day, especially when its an AJAX login with no typing required. Whenever you work it out, that will be just that much more frosting on an already admirable cake.

Hey guys, as a matter of interest I counted up a tally of Mac, Linux, and Windows users as reported so far in this thread, as well as the browser being used. I used the data for an experiment in doing graphs in Scratch:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/TegansPoppy/93706

I counted instances of use rather than just users. (Some people use more than one OS and/or browser; each got a tally mark). This is just a line graph, but I'm thinking through a pie chart and some others... *That's* probably a post for another thread, but I thought the stats from this thread would be of interest to some of you reading. *I* would be interested in the stats from the Scratch server logs; any ScratchRs want to share percentages of user agents and OS versions from the logs or Google Analytics? ;]

Something has changed! Now I have to log in about once or twice a day.

1 Mac OS 10.4.11 Intel (Leopard, Here I Come)
2 Safari 3.0.4 (523.12.2) (Apple, where is the QUALITY popup blocker?)
3 About every 5-10 minutes. (it gets kinda annnoying...)

I use
1: Windows XP
2: Firefox 2.0.0.12
3: I cannot log on. Period.

The only reason I can post here is because I am using

1: Windows XP
2: Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254   
3: Every time I close the browser, it logs me out. (It might happen more offen, but I usually just use Firefox to browse on Scratch.)

Google is not a browser, but a web site.  Browsers are programs like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Browse, Konqueror, and so forth that give you access to web sites.