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Do I lose my work if I accidentally close my web browser?

Usually, you won't lose any work if you accidentally close your web browser (without logging out) or if your web browser crashes. However, this depends how the Secure Global Desktop Administrator configured the applications you use in Secure Global Desktop, and how you logged in to Secure Global Desktop.

Application configuration

If an application is configured to be "Not Resumable", then it exits when you log out of Secure Global Desktop or if your browser or client device crashes. Typically applications are configured to be Not Resumable if they're used only for short periods at a time, and not for business-critical functions.

Applications configured to be "Always Resumable", or "Resumable Until Log Out", continue to run if you close your web browser. Simply restart, log in to Secure Global Desktop again and resume the applications that are still running.

To see if an application is resumable or not, point to its link on your webtop and look at the popup window that displays (or look in the status bar at the bottom of the window).

Who you're logged in as

If you logged in to Secure Global Desktop anonymously (you didn't supply a username and password) or you're using a shared webtop (where more than one person logs in using the same username and password), then your applications exit if your browser or client device crashes.

Why? In both cases, Secure Global Desktop can't tell when you log in to Secure Global Desktop again that you're the same user as before, because you're not using a unique username and password.

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