title: Understanding PHP Sessions in Magento
body: <p>Im having trouble figuring out a couple things regarding sessions, the browser, and Magento (or probably any shopping cart for that matter). I understand that by default 24 minutes of inactivity will close a session. I am also under the the understanding that when you completely exit a browser, that session is also closed. </p>
  
  <p>To test the second part I accessed my Magento store, added a product into my cart, and completely exited my browser. I reopened my browser and the product was still in the cart. How is that so? Does the PHP garbage collector only run at certain times? I figured that session would be dead therefore couldnt link up to the cookie that is stored on my machine. Any help is appreciated.</p>