The only time the browser should restore session cookies is after a
crash or some other abnormal shutdown. Restoring should never be the
default as it turns session cookies in to permanent cookies - they will
never expire, as they don't have an expiration date.
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Re-opening as our browser by default continues where the user left off
(it restores all open tabs). So we should probably set the cookie mode
to restored in the default case, and set it to ephemeral when the user
launches the browser with the --new-session command-line flag.
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To confirm, you can use a guest session, and re-do the test here. You
will not be logged in automatically after a browser restart, due to the
use of session cookies by the Google Account service.
As pointed out by mardy, the behavior observed in the bug report is due
to a chrome feature called "co
I can confirm that Chrome does not show that behavior, i.e. it does let
me login without having to enter the credentials again.
Chromium however does show the behavior described in comment #1.
However, webbrowser-app does require the userid (email) entered again
before letting you log in.
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As David wrote, this behaviour is due to the fact that Google corporate
accounts store their session in session cookies, which are normally
cleared when the browser is closed.
Now, when using Chromium in the desktop, session cookies are restored, if the
user has chosen that on startup the last se
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Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605218
Title:
Google account login using 2FA isn’t remembered across sessions
To
I think this is really a Google feature, not a bug.
>From what we observed, corporate / 2fa accounts userids are stored as
/session cookies/ and thus only survive for the lifetime of a browser
session. We think this is on purpose, to force an userid confirmation
"every morning" or so, as defined b
