When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session.

I had forgotten about intentionally inducing crashes. Fun times.

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.

back in 2006

My "two decades" guess wasn't too far from that, then.

It says session restoration AFTER CRASH. I'm pretty sure Firefox always had an option to restore previous session at startup.

It's definitely a potential security issue, but I don't really think it's realistically a large one. Hell, a keylogger would probably be worse for you than for me because I hardly ever actually enter passwords.

Well, that's why I have a strong user password and disk encryption :)

Even if they were able to login, I use a heavily customized window manager, keyboard-shortcuts based, and unless they really knew what they were doing, they wouldn't even know how to start the browser :))

Anyway, I get it could be a security issue, but I use so many websites daily, for both work and private... All (almost) with 2FA/TOTP, too. I would go nuts if I had to re-authenticate every time I restarted my browser.

I do take a few measures for privacy. I use separate workspaces for private/work and container tabs, separated for generic/work/amazon/google etc. I also have a few extensions that block ads, trackers, cookies, social integrations, etc. I don't use any social platform (except lemmy). When I create an account on a website, I use a random/dedicated email account and/or username, with an obscene password that I will never know/see, my password manager handles that.

I work from home, and in my network I use a custom DNS setup, with firewall rules to force DNS requests to only go through my router (no direct connections from hardcoded ips). As an upstream DNS, I use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2, adding yet an extra filter. No ports are opened on my network, no remote access possible. For downloading Linux isos, I have a private VPN connection to a buddy in another country.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying my setup is unbreakable, there are people out there with the skillset to take anything down. I don't think I upset anyone that much though :)

If anyone has any ideas on how to be more secure, while not getting inconvenienced, I would love to hear them!

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.

Firefox temporary tabs extension

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.

I was not awake as a proper human

I like this phrase

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.

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 lemmy clients now currently using eternity and none of them did what you were describing there.

That or operator error(less likely) such as using the back button to go back to the home screen instead of using the home button or something simple like that

Yeah, a few years ago Chrome removed the "don't save state to disk" feature and replaced it with some lesser tools for deleting state that was already saved to disk.

Firefox has never had this problem - you tell it to never remember history, it doesn't write state to disk.

They wouldn't understand....

You know you can turn it off too, right?