[whatwg] When closing the browser

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Bil Corry wrote:
> >
> > Why do session cookies not address this already?
> 
> They do to some extent.  You can choose to make the session life 
> shorter, increasing security but potentially logging the user out before 
> they're ready OR you can choose to make the session life longer, 
> decreasing security but allowing the user more time.

I don't mean short cookie times, I mean literally session cookies, that 
expire at the end of the session.

sessionStorage (from HTML5) might also help with this; it's limited to 
the lifetime of the tab that it was used in.


> Or maybe it'd be better if non-persistent cookies are removed once the 
> user no longer has an open tab to the site, instead of using a 
> JavaScript-based solution.

This could be done now; I recommend bringing this up with browser vendors 
as a feature request.

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