17 December 2007

logout has timed out because the application firefox failed to quit.

this message was on my screen this morning. i actually get it a lot. i have no idea where it comes from. i never log out overnight, i just shut the lid. in the morning i open the lid, type my password, and get this message.

it suggests that sometime over night macbook decided it was going to log out. the only thing that stops it is the "clear private data" dialog box that firefox throws up when it quits.

this is strange because i do not want the macbook to log out overnight. and its annoying because i lose all my firefox tabs when it closes.

i'm not sure what to do about it. but it sure is annoying!

i'm still annoyed by the lack of window focus when cmd-tab changing to firefox and thunderbird.

1 comment:

nico said...

update here - i got sick of this message so i started searching the web for the answer. apparently there is a checkbox to automatically log the user out after a certain period of inactivity. somehow this box got checked. it is under system preferences / security. turning this off stopped this error message.

i don't know how it got checked, i think it was labeled differently or positioned confusingly in an earlier update or something. but this problem is now solved!