rapid release schedule affect on user agent value

[Millwood]

It appears that new versions of the browser trigger requests to log into
some sites which normally keep me logged in. bugzilla is one.

Also, bank access seems to go through extended validation.

I'm guessing this is related to the changing user agent string value. Or
maybe it has something to do with cookies. (I don't have any special
cookie restrictions.)

If this is the case, I'm concerned that normal users will get annoyed if
they have to go through this every six weeks.

Is this a problem? An I even understanding the issue?

[Boris Zbarsky]

On 5/2/11 10:25 AM, Millwood wrote:
> It appears that new versions of the browser trigger requests to log into
> some sites which normally keep me logged in. bugzilla is one.

That's ... odd. I haven't encountered this. Can you reproduce this
reliably?

-Boris

[Millwood]

It's too random, and once it happens it of course doesn't happen again.

I am following the Aurora channel right now, but not every update causes
this, so I really am confused. Sorry.

[Ehsan Akhgari]

I should confess that a previous incarnation of me as a web developer
had wrote a user login library for web applications which hashed some
things including the UA string to figure out if the user's session needs
to be restarted. :(

Ehsan

[AugustaRamirez]

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