# You don't remember me?!? Sob!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 16, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160 "2010-01-16T02:26:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/1 "2010-01-16T02:26:03Z")

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I remember this happening another time, and to other Dopers. It started again today.

I usually keep SDMB open in a tab in Firefox. If I go off and do other things then come back to the SDMB tab and click on anything, I have to log in again.

Can I do something on my end to fix this?

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/2 "2010-01-16T02:44:45Z")

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You’ve clicked the “remember me” box?

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/3 "2010-01-16T03:21:44Z")

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> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#):
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> You’ve clicked the “remember me” box?

Of course. The box is there just to toy with my emotions, isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/4 "2010-01-16T03:24:06Z")

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It’s happening repeatedly tonight to me.

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/5 "2010-01-16T03:33:23Z")

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> [@raindog](#):
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> It’s happening repeatedly tonight to me.

It’s an anti-Ohio-Doper conspiracy! ::Tears hair, runs in circles, looks for tin foil hat::

Actually, it seems to have stopped for me. Of course, now that I’ve said that…

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**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/6 "2010-01-16T04:25:10Z")

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You haven’t changed your cookie settings in your browser, have you?

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/7 "2010-01-16T05:33:37Z")

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I’ve been logged in for years. I think I’ve been logged out twice since 2003.

[sub]Shoulda bought a Mac… D&R[/sub]

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**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/8 "2010-01-16T14:30:10Z")

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> [@picunurse](#):
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> I’ve been logged in for years. I think I’ve been logged out twice since 2003.
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> [sub]Shoulda bought a Mac… D&R[/sub]

I’m using a Mac!

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**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/9 "2010-01-16T16:01:16Z")

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I haven’t had that problem, but have had one that sounds possibly related. The other day it would not update when I last accessed the boards. The time stayed at 6PM the day before even though I had been to the boards many time since. The lists of unread posts were growing longer and longer. Stopping and starting my browser did not correct it. I had to log out of the Dope and back in again to fix it,

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-remember-me-sob/525160/10 "2010-01-17T00:49:39Z")

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> [@freckafree](#):
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> I’m using a Mac!

Are you using Safari?
