213075 - Browser session should be unique when launched from OS level icon

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, enhancement)

Description

[Timothy C. Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I do allot of user context testing on a Web Based workflow system I am
developing in many cases I need to log into the system with multiple user types
at one time. This cannot be done with Mozilla.

I can do this with Internet Explorer by launching a new browser window via the
O.S. level menu's. In IE when a browser window is launched from the OS menu, it
has a new browser session ID and as such get's a new session cookie from our web
browser allowing a new context in our system. When a new window is launched from
the browser (window.open() or file>new>window or Ctrl-N) it shares the
originating windows session ID and as such the same user context.

Although I know this is a very broad effecting change to the structure of
Mozilla, this feature would be desirable in the long run. I would like to do all
my testing and development in Mozilla but I must have IE to do this type of
testing:(

I am aware that this is a broad change and would need some high level buy in but
I believe this functionality is intuitive and will add to the browsers
flexibility as a development environment.

Best regards,
Tim

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117222 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe.