260107 - Each Firefox window should be a separate operating system process

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Description

[solo turn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3) (KHTML, like Gecko)
Build Identifier: 

firefox (and also netscape) cannot be used to login multiple times (maybe with 
different credentials) to the same website. this is not user friendly. 
 
examples where you need this: 
- you have more than one account at a bank 
  and they did not switch them all together 
  into one login. 
- you are testing software where you 
  must log in as different users. 
  (given that firefox is otherwise by far 
  the best browser for developers this 
  is a pity). 
 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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there is no point in locking the profile exclusivly, so you are not able to 
start a second browser. it is sufficient to use either some kind of optimistic 
locking (the first one who writes wins), or the last one wins (as ie 6.0 is 
doing), without saying anything. 
 
at the end i'm overwriting my own data, so who cares? i can do it anyway.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We get massive data corruption and crash bugs if we allow two instances to share
the same profile at this point in time. In the future (heading towards 2.0) we
plan to move towards a profile-sharing mechanism, but in the meantime this is
WONTFIX (and there are many dups of this bug hanging around, please search
before you file).

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Verified, see bug 135137.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 301278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** Bug 302081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 326021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 341016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

Comment 0 is a lot like bug 117222, "Limit Scope of Session Cookies (new tabs and windows)".  But I'm leaving this unduped because most of the bugs marked as a dup of this one are about crashes/hangs affecting all Firefox windows.

Comment 10

[Halil]

There is an obvious need to be able to start more than one firefox process. Are there any plans to work on this issue?