Although the extension logs in to your email accounts emulating a browser session, this log in is quite independent of any log in you may make using a browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. For example, should you log in to your web mail account using Firefox, you will not be logged in using IE, even from the same computer. You can log in quite independently using either browser, even log in using both simultaneously. The point that I'm making is that whatever the extension does to log in will have no effect on you logging in using a browser. If you found yourself already logged in, then this would have to be because you hadn't logged out of a previous session and a cookie had stored the log in. A corollary of this is that if someone else has logged in from another computer, you would only find out if they changed something, you cannot tell just by logging in yourself whether another program on your computer or anywhere else (or anyone else) is also logged in.
wizard wrote: > Q. If this add-on is used to check a few Yahoo webmail accounts, > would it be logging in to each account according to my chosen > time cycle parameters, but log out and leave me disconnected > from the Yahoo network in between checks? > > That's how I'd want it to behave... > > I mistrust Yahoo. The accounts are leftovers from the pre-Gmail era. > In recent years - for various reasons unwilling to deactivate them > altogether - I have checked for incoming Yahoo (only) mail within > Firefox, via the add-on called "WebMail Notifier." > > But this morning I discovered something appalling when I manually > navigated to the Yahoo Calendar login page: I was already logged in on > one of my userIDs, > > This despite a number of browser measures to avoid or clear LSOs, > Flash cookies, SuperCookies, or any kind of persistent cookie I have > ever heard of. (I'm not a tech expert.) > > I do not want Yahoo hooked to me except when either (a) an automated > process is checking for new mail; or (b) I am actually looking inside > one of my accounts with my own eyeballs. > > > > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
