[FX.php List] Strange session variable behavior

[Bob Patin]

I'm writing a site where I'm using a session variable to login users  
and either allow or deny access to certain pages in the site.

When I come back to the site, after closing my browser, my session  
variables are still set; I thought that closing my browser killed any  
session variables--isn't this the case?

If so, then why doesn't my session variable get dumped when I close  
my browser? For that matter, when I went to a 2nd browser (Firefox),  
I was STILL able to retrieve the session variable...

Correct me here if I'm wrong; should I not be able to close my  
browser to close out any session?

Thanks,

Bob Patin
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