Staying Signed Into E-mail?

[Mitchell]

I have a problem with my e-mail, that perhaps I could get advice on.

My Gmail account is my main e-mail account, for communication with business associates, family, friends, etc.

Lately, a very weird thing has been happening. I can stay signed into the e-mail from Google Chrome. However, every time I'm on Internet Explorer, the e-mail keeps asking me for my password every time I want to check my e-mail. Usually, there was a button which one could check, which said "Stay signed into Gmail", that doesn't seem to be there anymore.

I know I can conceivably check my Gmail account from Chrome. However, the lettering seems to be smaller, and harder to read on there. Additionally, I don't know why they keep asking for my password when I try to access it from IE. This has been going on for a few days now, and is annoying.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any advice to perhaps fix it?

Thanks.

 

[TTT for joy]

I'm in no way expert on this, but computer security is my hobby, so I will tell you what I think the cause probably is.

When you click "stay signed", what in reality happens is, that your web browser stores a cookie (a small file) with a secret phrase, which it sends to gmail servers in order to connect you without you having to give your password. When gmail receives that secret phrase, it sends you a new one, so that you can stay signed in.
The trouble is that when you use multiple webbrowsers, they don't share the same cookies, which is why gmail gets to ask you for a password, since it receives an old passphrase from your other web browser, which is no longer valid and is looking at you "suspiciously".

A possible solution would be to share cookies among your web browsers, but after a quick search, I've discovered that it seems like a difficult challenge to try to do something like that, so I'm afraid I don't have any good solution to propose you. Perhaps people who are more knowledgeable with computers can tell you more.

EDIT:
A bit risky solution is to store your password in Internet Explorer, to make the signing in process faster. If no one else has access to your computer, it should not be that much of a problem, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Mitchell]

Okay. Thanks for your insight.