Why must my password must be re-entered after so few seconds of inactivity?

I find that only a few seconds of contemplation cause me to have to re-enter my password to return to the page I was editing. Sometimes the password retuns me without a complete sign-in. my browser is MozillaFirefox 3.6.** but internet explorer 8 is in my system. 'Crash' may be the wrong term. What I called 'Crash' is a few seconds of inactivity.

Hi,
Post in the MacBookPro forum here.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
This is the Mac App Store forum. Don't worry..  might take awhile to adjust to the new ASC.
Carolyn 

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