Here is an automatic redirector for the massively annoying
Master Session Timeout page:
Code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name SWA Master Session Timeout Redirector
// @author wnProTips
// @namespace http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/members/ftnoob.html
// @description Automatically redirects away from masterSessionTimeout.html
// @license Creative Commons Attribution License
// @version Beta 0.1
// @released 2011-05-25
// @updated
// @include http://www.southwest.com/flight/masterSessionTimeout.html*
// ==/UserScript==
window.location.href='http://www.southwest.com/flight/';
The above is a GreaseMonkey script, therefore you must copy all the text in the box, save it (in plain text form, e.g., via notepad), as swaMasterSessionTimeout.user.js (or similar name ending in .user.js
not .user.js.txt as notepad would do by default). Once you have saved a [something].user.js file, drag it from your file manager (e.g., Explorer) to Firefox, and follow the prompts.
Note that an alternative to the above GM script would be to install
Einar Egilsson's Redirector Add On.
I don't redirect to the MySouthwest login page because I think MySouthwest sessions should be avoided whenever possible. (There are
way too many security issues involved.) What I have been doing until now for the timeout page is entering the key sequence: Alt-D, Ctrl-Z, [Enter] to get back to the page I was trying to load. (This shortcut doesn't work in Chrome because its address bar doesn't recognize the world's most common undo shortcut.
)
At some point I might investigate whether I could have this script use the browser's history to duplicate my personal shortcut.
If you install and test this today it will probably seem slow; southwest.com has seemed slow to me all day, perhaps due to continued high use with yesterday's holiday booking window opening.