Re: side-effect of tabbed browsing

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

When I travel, I almost always buy tickets online. Instead of leaving the
page open, however, I always print to PDF and mail that to a webmail
account. I do that with other stuff that I need to access anywhere.

Edwin



On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:17 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <
Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:

> This is from one of my "duh" or perhaps "doh!" moments, but maybe some
> of you would have occasion to mention it as a caution in a customer
> document.
>
>
>
> Ever since browsers began offering tabbed browsing, some years ago, I've
> been operating with lots and lots of tabs open. In fact, I often make it
> a point to shut down my computer with Firefox still open - closing the
> program manually closes all the tabs, whereas letting Windows or Liinux
> force it closed causes it to remember all the tabbed connections and
> give you/me the option to just resume all the same sessions/connections
> when next you start the browser.  Yes, there are other ways to get back
> to where you were, but this one is minimal fuss for me.
>
>
>
> Now, another thing that I do is to buy stuff online. Most shopping-cart
> services complete a sale by showing you a summary of what you have just
> spent and where it's going to be sent, giving a transaction number in
> case you need to make inquiries, and stating that an e-mail will be sent
> to you with the detailed transaction record.  Because I can be forgetful
> when a lot of things are going on, and because such e-mails can
> sometimes take a while to arrive in my inbox, or fail to arrive at all,
> I leave the final summarizing web-page open in my browser until I
> receive the equivalent e-mail.
>
>
>
> Are some of y'all already seeing where this is going?
>
>
>
> I bought some stuff. I did my usual thing. I got my summary e-mail.  A
> few days later I got my package.  Done.
>
>
>
> A week later I got another summary e-mail, dated that day, thanking me
> for buying the same stuff all over again, and telling me to watch for my
> package delivery.
>
> Hmm. I'll have to watch the credit-card statement to be sure I'm not
> being double-billed.
>
> A little later, I get _another_ summary e-mail thanking me yet again,
> for purchasing the same stuff yet again.
>
> Dammit, what are these idiots DOING??
>
>
>
> Finally, I clued in.
>
>
>
> I had left the summary web-page open in a browser tab, moved on to other
> things, shut down and restarted the computer a few times over the course
> of a week or two, and so the browser had obediently re-connected and
> re-populated all my open tabs each time I revived it... including the
> purchase summary page that I had forgotten to close. Every time that
> page was revisited, the shopping-cart machinery had happily generated
> another e-mail, thanking me for my purchase yet again and telling me
> that it would arrive in just a few days... yet again.
>
>
>
> The moral of this story?  I dunno. There's one in there somewhere.
> Maybe:  If you are going to do things the lazy way, try to be aware of
> the implications.  ??
>
>
>
>  - Kevin
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