Closed Bug 260107 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Each Firefox window should be a separate operating system process

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: soloturn99, Assigned: benjamin)

References

Details

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: 1. 2. 3. 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.
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).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Verified, see bug 135137.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 301278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 302081 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 326021 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 341016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: multiple operating system processes → Each Firefox window should be a separate operating system process
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.
There is an obvious need to be able to start more than one firefox process. Are there any plans to work on this issue?
Depends on: 135137
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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