As David wrote, this behaviour is due to the fact that Google corporate accounts store their session in session cookies, which are normally cleared when the browser is closed.
Now, when using Chromium in the desktop, session cookies are restored, if the user has chosen that on startup the last session should be shown; in all other cases, they are cleared. Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10617954/chrome-doesnt-delete-session-cookies https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=128513 In our GMail (and other Google-affiliated) webapp we set the cookie mode to "restored", in order to preserve the authenticated session between restarts. That's the obvious right thing to do in a webapp. For webbrowser-app, the behaviour is a bit more questionable, but given that webbrowser app usually starts with showing the last page the user visited, and keeps all tabs active, I would guess that the most natural behaviour would be to remember session cookies, in the same way that Chromium does when it's restoring the last visited tabs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605218 Title: Google account login using 2FA isn’t remembered across sessions Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: This has been reliably reproduced on desktop and a phone running webbrowser-app 0.23+16.04.20160711-0ubuntu1 (and oxide 1.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1). Steps to reproduce: 1) wipe your session data (make a backup first if you care) by removing ~/.local/share/webbrowser-app/ 2) launch webbrowser-app 3) browse to https://mail.google.com 4) log in with an account that uses 2FA (I’m testing with a @canonical.com address) 5) read your e-mails 6) close the browser window 7) launch webbrowser-app again Expected result: you’re back to your inbox, logged in and ready to work Actual result: google prompts you for your e-mail address. Once entered, the login happens automatically, there is no need to do the 2FA dance again. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1605218/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
