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Every time I go to my bank it needs to re-authenticate me? It doesn't remember the sites I go to frequently? I need to login again every time I go to HN? You c

Every time I go to my bank it needs to re-authenticate me? It doesn't remember the sites I go to frequently? I need to login again every time I go to HN? You can still let your browser remember your passwords. This reduces 'authenticating' to simply clicking a button. Or you could configure a whitelist of sites that are allowed to keep your cookies for a longer time. And to 'remember' sites I go to frequently I have bookmarks (and my own memory). Then again, browser history did save my ass multiple times. It's the cookies that annoy me.

sapphirecat 16y ago
> Or you could configure a whitelist of sites that are allowed to keep your cookies for a longer time. This, I do. All cookies are session cookies except for my bank, to save their "I use this computer a lot" cookie so I don't have to be challenged in addition to the anti-phishing and password stage. And, I trust my own website so that I can put 'newblog' into the awesomebar and start writing quickly. The only problem I've had is determining which site cookies are important. The bank uses a 3rd-party provider for the Internet Banking Area, so their cookies have no relation to the bank name. Once Firefox has forced a cookie to session lifetime, it doesn't go back to being saved when you whitelist that specific cookie's domain, which was confusing when next I visited the bank and it had forgotten me. But after that visit, it was fine.