296200 - No ``log out'' facility to end a session on secure site.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260186

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

Mozilla has a ``log out'' feature that will cause it to stop submitting the
password for a secure site and thus stop the site believing you're logged in. 
Not all sites provide a log out method and this feature is very useful for
dealing with such sites.

Please add a similar feature to Firefox -- lack of it is keeping me (and a
number of people at my University who have to deal with these sites) from
switching to FF from Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site that you have an account on which doesn't provide a log out
link/button.
2. Log in.
3. Try to log out :-).

Actual Results:  
Can't log out of some web sites until the browser is closed.

Expected Results:  
Provide a ``log out'' action in the GUI - or sanitize feature?

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260186 ***