# Session Timeout

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [October 19, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686 "2015-10-19T19:26:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/session-timeout/34686/35 "2020-09-08T03:50:54Z")

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> [@peteratkins](#):
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> Essentially I need the user forgotten when the browser is closed

That is exactly my patch did, but that was reverted 😕

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/09ef5f613ef5fdf74554707de1fdccc935c6b0b9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/09ef5f613ef5fdf74554707de1fdccc935c6b0b9)

You can check the code and port it to a plugin.

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