Signing out automatically

Some sites you'd rather not stay signed in to, such as your bank. Litr can sign you out of a site for you: it deletes the site's cookies and data, which is what signing out amounts to, and reloads its open tabs.

Sign out now

Tabs → Sign Out of This Site (or Sign Out of This Site in the command palette) signs you out of the current tab's site at once. A note under the toolbar confirms it.

Sign out after time away

1. Open the site in a tab and press ⌥⌘S (Tabs → Schedule…).
2. Choose Sign out as the action.
3. Under After time away, pick 5 min, 15 min, 30 min or 1 hour.

From then on, Litr signs you out once you've been away from the site for that long. "Away" means the site isn't in the tab you're looking at: you switched tab or room, opened a panel, or went to another app. Coming back before the time is up starts the count again. After signing you out, the schedule waits until you next use the site, then counts again, so it keeps working every time.

The schedule list shows how long is left, for example "15 min after you leave the site (in 9 min)".

Sign out at a set time

With Sign out chosen, the usual schedule choices work too: once in 15 minutes to 4 hours, or every day at a time such as 17:00.

What is deleted

Everything WebKit keeps for the site's domain: cookies, local storage, IndexedDB, service workers and cached files. It covers the whole domain, so signing out of nettbank.dnb.no deletes data for dnb.no and all its subdomains. Other sites aren't touched.

Good to know

• Litr checks every 20 seconds, so it signs you out within 20 seconds of the time.
• Time away is saved and keeps counting while Litr is closed. A site you were away from long enough is signed out when Litr starts.
• Some sites also end the session on their server after a while. Litr's sign-out is about your Mac: afterwards the site doesn't remember you.
• Forget tabs don't need this: their data is deleted when they close.
• Web apps keep their own data and aren't affected.