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I remember I was able to browse things like my profile and others' profiles from the community tab in Steam. Lately, however, it seems that the community tab just shows me a page where I have to explicitly log-in with my Steam account name and password – even though I'm browsing from within the logged-in Steam client.
Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to make it authenticate automatically, or do I have to use the username and password manually?
Apparently, the Steam Community feature conflicts with Microsoft's Games For Windows Live in-game overlay.
I disabled it and it worked.
If you want to do this without starting Steam and logging in, you can modify the setting in the Windows registry. The autostart checkbox is directly tied to a registry key — simply deleting it is all the Steam client does when said checkbox is unchecked.
Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the Steam key. Or as a .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Steam"=-
Best Answer
It happens now and then, especially when your Steam client has been running for a long time.
The built-in browser drops your session cookies, for some reason, making your current login invalid.
To solve this, either log-in or restart your client.