I can’t imagine life without it, but I know there was a beforfore time.
When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.
Submitted 2 months ago by Lupo@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
back in 2006
My “two decades” guess wasn’t too far from that, then.
Im_old@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine the web without cookies man. There was nothing to remember, just caching pictures and history.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
I have my browser set to clear everything when it’s closed. Both on mobile and on desktop. I would never have it any other way. God forbid someone hacked your PC…can you imagine of they had access to your browser that was logged into every single rlmajor account?
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s definitely a security issue, I guess, but it’s not been an issue in the 20+ years I’ve been using computers so…
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 months ago
Then you get the dumb websites saying “we don’t recognize this device.” I can’t stand that. Especially while I’m using Passkeys to log in, like how are you this paranoid as a web developer not to realize that?
I’m a web developer myself armed with a VPN, and I’m tired of being hassled on others’ websites. Security based solely on IP address is lame.
Im_old@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Firefox temporary tabs extension
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Everything important with the exception of a single email address that probably can’t do that much damage anyway is auto logged out. My bank, being only 90% fucking stupid forces a logout after 5minutrs of inactivity on their web portal.
It’s be annoying to reset all my passwords, that’s about it.
Lupo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve learned that it was first came about as an explicit feature around 2006, I was not awake as a proper human at this point.
Regarding the privacy concerns.
Just now, my friend used her google photos AI to search for photos of me and my dead cat using my name.
I’ve come to accept that my information is readily available and that I am but a humble fish apart of a school surrounded by sharks, playing a numbers game for survival.
EmbarrassedDrum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I was not awake as a proper human
I like this phrase
skeesx@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Opera 9.0 releasef June 30th 2006
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the Voyager lemmy app needs this SO bad. i want to google up something before i comment and then poof the whole post is gone.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
That sounds more like your phone is agressively shutting apps down to save memory and energy. Some brands are known to do this more than others. You should be able to tell your phone not to close that app when on the background.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
its not the shutting apps thats the problem its the amnesia.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That might be something with voyager, I agree with the other person that it sounds like the device itself is closing the app due to some sort of battery setting, but if it’s not that then it’s something at least. I’ve tried a handful of different let me clients now currently using eternity and none of them did what you were describing there.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i have several other apps like firefox that reopen where i left off just fine. i wonder what other people who use voyager experience?
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tbh I despise it, I want a fresh start every time
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You know you can turn it off too, right?
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I think it’s an annoying default tho
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ironically, I prefer browsers that specifically do not do this.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I remember Session Restore from Firefox 2.0 times, I think. Back then people would crash the browser on purpose to have it remember the tabs.
So I guess this sort of feature is, like, ~two decades old or so.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had forgotten about intentionally inducing crashes. Fun times.
eronth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember doing similar. I would intentionally kill my browser/computer without gracefully shutting down the browser. Literally everything else I would go and shut down normally, browser needed to be crashed.