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Re: not logging out and closing browser?
said by quatrix  :Contrary to some of the false information here (maybe from the same non-experts who preach against JavaScript and cookies, leave anti-virus and other stuff resident in memory, etc.) there's essentially no difference and nothing to worry about. If you want to see for yourself, log into a secure site, copy the URL, close the browser, reopen it, and try to load the URL. Unless the web site is seriously screwed up, you'll have to log in again. Actually there are a lot of those "seriously screwed up" web sites, including some for some very high profile high tech companies. I have closed the browser and reentered several such sites with no login required from a different computer, but the same public IP address. I would hope that eventually they would time out, but I have done this after several hours on a couple of occasions, so the time out (if any) for those sites is quite long.
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