That shouldn't affect anything until the next time I try to navigate, say to the next thread with unread messages.
Something caused the browser to spontaneously start navigating on its own. I didn't click a link and get redirected to the signin page at that time. It went there all by itself without my hands even being on the keyboard or mouse. Web browsers are not supposed to have minds of their own and start browsing around by themselves. Now it is possible that the session had timed out while I was reading those messages, and a prank navigation-triggering thingy thus triggered the signin page instead of doing something else ... which, if anything, is worrying. If the session had not been timed out at the time the prank input was generated, could it have taken gmail actions on my behalf such as deleting messages or even sending mail impersonating me? As it is it cost me my read/unread information for this thread at the time, and I had to review the whole thing to find the messages it had marked read that I hadn't actually read. Rather rude. I'd like to know how to protect myself against any message display triggering any kind of auto-navigation by the browser, partly because it clearly can cause inconvenience (what if this thread had been one of the real long ones, with 50+ messages, and I'd lost my place in that?) and partly because of the risk of the auto-navigation command being the equivalent of a phantom click on "delete" or "send" or something. Even if the cause in this case was something that would have been harmless even without a timed-out session preventing it from doing anything but send me to the gmail login prompt, the next time might be something more malicious, and might happen without the session being timed out. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, John Szakmeister <j...@szakmeister.net>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > [meta, but about something apparently triggered by the message, from this > > thread, that I'm quoting] > > > > Why did reading this post cause gmail to go bonkers? I saw this thread > had > > new articles since earlier today, brought it up, and read the previous > > message, then just after I'd scrolled down to this one, leaned back, and > > started reading it the browser just suddenly began spinning on its own > and > > navigated by itself. Apparently about 10 seconds after I sat back > > *something* input a click on the little down-triangle in the upper right > > corner of the page and then clicked "sign out" because it went to the > gmail > > login page. And a second or so before that the chat thingy at the left > > crashed as a popup there distracted me by appearing suddenly and saying > > something like "Oops, problem connecting to chat". > > GMail's sessions time out periodically. I forget the interval (or if > it's random... it seems to be at times), but when it does, it has > similar behavior to what you've described. Chat goes a little wonky, > and then you're brought to the sign in page some moments later. I > think the behavior is slightly worse if you have two accounts in GMail > (I have a regular GMail account and one that's in the Apps for > Business). They sometimes interact badly, especially around starting > and ending sessions. > > -John > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
