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Is it possible to add an option to sign on permanently? Signing on every time I revisit is getting to be a royal pain.

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I also use Firefox and it keeps me always signed in. When I turn on the computer and then click on the TalkBaja icon on my bookmarks toolbar, here it is and I'm ready to go.

Don't know Gene
I use the Firefox bookmarks toolbar for all my bookmarked sites - maybe that has something to do with it?

I just checked and DON"T find the password saved in Firefox. But it works. Think also have to have cookies turned on.

On a different but kind of related subject, can we change the time from GMT to our local time?

I use the toolbar for bookmarks, not the bookmarks dropdown at the top of the browser.

I use IE 7 and have to sign in frequently. Can you tell me if there is a specific timeout when there has been no activity? If my PC is on all day, and I sign in here in the morning, when I come back a few hours later, I have to sign in again. That "other" site keeps me signed in until my PC automatically deletes cookies once a day.

Oh. As for the cookies, I'm set to receive cookies from this site, lest it won't even allow sign-in.

Originally Posted by bajalou

...can we change the time from GMT to our local time?

Yep.

User CP(top left>>Edit Options>>Scroll down to Date & Time Options>>Click that little arrow and select where you are geographically; we're Pacific, Daylight Savings enabled>>click Save Changes at bottom.

Originally Posted by Gruñón

Back to the question.
Do you have your computer set to accept cookies from this site.
As stated above that turned out to be my problem with not being kept logged in.

How do I do that?

Originally Posted by Gruñón

Right click on this page.
Click on View Page Info.
Click on Permissions.
Be sure it says accept cookies

As a side not I went through the whole thing once again and it now has worked 4 times keeping me logged in..

Nope. Doesn't say view page info. Clicking on view source, properties or page info doesn't give any options about accepting cookies. Using XPpro.

Well; I've massaged the hell out of my Firefox cookie retention...no joy.

Changed password settings
Tools>Options>Security>Remember passwords for sites(check); verified password was saved.

Now the login screen comes up "Username", but when I type the first capital "M", a clickable popup appears with mine in it that I click, then hit enter/click that arrow and I'm in.

Some progress; better than typing out the whole thing.

Originally Posted by Gruñón

You are not seeing this? Second from bottom.
If not we need bajalou to chime in here as he is very knowledgeable about Firefox.

No. Mine says "page info" and contains these options:

Cached snapshot of page
Similar pages
Backward links
Translate page into English

I don't have Firefox. I'm using IE with XPpro.

Thanks for the directions on the time thing.

As far as the log on - I just know mine works all the time - I'll study on it some more but I don't show any password stored.

I'm going to install Firefox 3.0.11 right now; I had been using 3.0.7. A ver.

In looking around, I have a talkbaja.com cookie called bbpassword - aswell as bbuserid, bblastvisit and bblastactivity

My suspicion is that these are keeping me signed in.

Originally Posted by bajalou

In looking around, I have a talkbaja.com cookie called bbpassword - aswell as bbuserid, bblastvisit and bblastactivity

My suspicion is that these are keeping me signed in.

We're getting there, guys.

I have the bblastvisit and bblastactivity cookies, but I do NOT have bbpassword nor bbuserid.

In addition I have one called bbsessionhash.

Let me try something else. I think "Remember what I enter in forms and the search bar" might be it.

Originally Posted by Gruñón

I am not aware of a time limit but in the first couple of days on the new system I experienced being logged off while I still had the site open.

As mentioned there are bugs in the system. I know BajaGringo is working on them. Moderator Marty Cortez is also working to fine tune the system.

Me I just keep punching buttons to see what is not working.

You & me both!!

I figure it took at least 10 years off my life when the pics disappeared overnight! :icon_e_surprised: Since the site changed format & moved to a new server, my personal frustration level has increased daily, and at the rate things are going, I'm no longer making plans for manana, let along later today!:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

Firefox....accept cookies....deleted all cookies....deleted bookmark....started from scratch & did search for TB....it opened in failed to log on mode because it defaulted back to "Username" rather than longlegsinlapaz....I changed it to longlegsinlapaz & opened TB....saved that page as a bookmark....I typically do NOT hit the TB logout button, I just X out of the Firefox tab....but I've tried it both ways yesterday & today.

I found & followed the Cookie instructions in FAQ. Nothing I have tried has resulted in a PERMANENT fix! :icon_cry::icon_cry: Only since I began trying to resolve my auto-log-on defaulting back to "Username" issue has TB begun logging me out; frequently just going between "New Posts" & "Today's Posts":icon_cry::icon_cry: I also use a clean-up program that deletes cookies once a week. I haven't a clue whether the problem is with my PC....TB....or a combination of the two!:icon_e_confused:

It took me a full week to work my way to a level that I finally found a button to create a NEW THREAD! I was feeling soooooo blond!:icon_rolleyes: BTW, that button that's labeled "New Post' is deceptive until you cursor over it so it displays "Reply"! Took me a while to figure out that's the one to click on if you're anal like me & have a fierce desire to preview your post before you post. "Quick Reply" is just that....I'll NEVER use that button!

I too, miss the "comment" section for each individual pic posted. I LOVE the ease of posting pics here without having to re-size. I couldn't post pics until this site was created.

A key reason that I want this site to flourish is the "No Trolls" policy. The fact that it's got 3 Moderators at start-up is a HUGE PLUS for me. I sincerely hope this site takes off like gang-busters & remains a place that I'm proud to post & to be associated with. Ron gets major KUDOS for having moved "Off-Topic" posts off the "Today's Posts" page to some slimy back room where I personally have no desire enter.

IMO, the powers that be need to keep in mind that NOT ALL of us are Techie Nerds! :ugeek: IMO, this site was MUCH MORE USER-FRIENDLY in it's original format. It appears to have made a dramatic leap towards becoming a Techie Nerd Only Zone. :(

I DO understand that there are still a lot of "bugs" to work out, and I DO understand the more detailed data provided, the more/faster it'll help those wielding the big cans of bug spray to get it to a smoothly functioning site. I'm just not sure that I have that much time left. << Not all the emoticons work all of the time, it worked in my opening paragraph, but not here. (Ron, if you can come up with a whine/bitch/moan/snivel/complain icon, I promise I'll use it!)

I have the bbsessionhash also

bajalou is my new HERO!!!:icon_luv::icon_luv: Actually, I think it was a combination of Grunon :icon_luv:& bajalou:icon_luv:!

I just found a place by right clicking on TB page/View Page info/MORE at the bottom took me to a place I'd never been before....which contains stored usernames & passwords for this site.....I deleted "Username" & it's associated password.

My PC has not self-destructed....YET!:icon_lol:

Originally Posted by Gruñón

Legs don't hold back tell us how you really feel. :icon_e_biggrin:

Well, okay, but only since you asked so nicely....kicking into composition mode....back with +/- 24 hours!:icon_e_wink::icon_lol::icon_lol:

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

...a dramatic leap towards becoming a Techie Nerd Only Zone. :( ...

Heh.

It's just birthing pangs; combined with a learning curve unusually steep because this is some Very fully-featured software.

I'm a Furious Fiddler® like everybody else. I find it helpful to only make ONE CHANGE AT A TIME.

You should have seen me a few minutes ago. Multiple user accounts in XP; I installed a new version of Firefox, found old, out-of-date bookmarks with one user, tried an import of my latest backup, and instead of overwriting it appended to the end!

Tried it again with equally disastrous results; I now had Library of Congress-sized problem.

Resolved with a massive delete/re-import...{Phew!}

Closed everything and I've got 3(!) Firefox shortcuts on the desktop...no problem>>Cntl select two of them...

*Err0r* cAnNoT rEaD sOuRCe fIle...

All 3 dead; none would launch Firefox.

Start>Programs>Mozilla>Firefox>Send To>Desktop(create shortcut)...ahh. Now they work.

On and on and on like that...eventually ironed it out.

Originally Posted by Marty Cortez

I'm going to install Firefox 3.0.11 right now; I had been using 3.0.7. A ver.

Downloaded FF3.1 and set to remember passwords. Doesn't but now I can type 'S' and get screen name and password. Better.

THEN...On permissions unclicked set cookies default and set to 'allow' cookies. On security set to show passwords. Fixed!