264698 - mozilla shares session between tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jalpesh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

If you go to a the same site using tabbed browsing, I have noticed that Mozilla
shares the session between the tabs. This could be a good thing in general, but
sometimes this can be fairly dangeours, especially in e-commerce applications -
you might end up buying multiple things you did not anticipate.

I just ran into this issue at www.vistaprint.com - where I was buying a card,
but had another tab open to look at other designs, and did not realize that both
tabs were sharing the same session, so ended up buying a different design than
what I had wanted.

I think mozilla should allow option which creates a new session per tab,
irrespective of whether you are visiting the same site or not. (like in IE,
where if you opena new IE window, it is a new session even if you go to the same
site)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open vistaprint.com and choose a card design than you might want to buy
2. Open another tab and choose another card design and preview it(to compare
both designs)
3. Switch to the first tab, and buy the first card design

Actual Results:  
I found that the site actually selected the second card design, not the first one.

Expected Results:  
If there were different sessions, I would have ordered the first card design only.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

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