Should I close my bank's tab when I'm done?

Why it matters

Signing in, even with a code or a passkey, unlocks a session. That session stays unlocked for as long as the tab, and sometimes the browser, keeps it. Your second factor did its job at the door; it can't tell you from anything else running in the same browser afterwards.

So an open banking tab is like leaving the front door open after you came home: you're still in the house, and so is anything that was already inside.

Habits that help

1. Do what you came to do, then sign out rather than just closing the window.
2. Close the tab.
3. Don't keep banking open in the background while you browse elsewhere.
4. Keep extensions you don't need away from banking; a separate browser profile works.

Haven's role

While a Protected site is the tab you're looking at, Haven keeps your other browser extensions paused so nothing can read what you type into a login form, and they come back when you switch away. In Haven's settings, under "Pause other extensions on Protected sites", that is the default, "Only the tab I'm looking at" (Recommended); "While any Protected tab is open" keeps them paused until every Protected tab is closed.

The 'Extensions paused' badge means Haven is holding your other extensions paused because a Protected site is open, and you are on a tab that isn't itself a Protected site.