288559 - When logging into different Gmail as Firefox Always Opens the 1st account ever opened...ccount

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[xmd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I've tried this in IE and it works fine.

I have multiple gmail accts and tried to access a different one for the first
time today. The webpage works correctly if i do not put in a correct password/
login. but as soon as a correct loggin attempt is made the gmail opens the first
account ever used on firefox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into Gmail
2.Exit Gmail
3.Log into Gmail ass different account
4. Gmail loads 1st account.

Actual Results:  
The first account is always loaded. I've attempted this over 9x times.

Expected Results:  
Loaded the account I logged into.

I think it has to do with the password thingy. I havn't messed with it tho.

I just use IE when i need the other acct.


Not a big hassle.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 117222 "Limit Scope of Session Cookies (new tabs and windows)"

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401
Firefox/1.0+
Logging into and out of various gmail accounts works for me. Do you have the
gmail notification extension installed? that sometimes causes strangeness.

Comment 3

[William McFarland]

I was using Firefox 1.0.6 and didn't have a problem with switching between GMAIL
accounts.

A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 and all updates done.  No other software yet.
 Installed the BETA 1 version of Firefox.

Log into one GMAIL account.  Logging out and getting the fresh page for loggin
in (apparently logging out successfully).  Then log into other account with
using completely different login/password combination.  Results are I get logged
into the original account.

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I was using Firefox 1.0.6 and didn't have a problem with switching 
> between GMAIL accounts.

Are you saying that the logging in and logging out works as you would
expect?

If so, in view of the passage of time, this report can probably be closed
as WORKSFORME.

We don't know why it didn't work (or didn't seem to work) for the Reporter
six months ago.

Comment 5

[William McFarland]

This bug is an issue in the 1.5 BETA 1 release as of Sept. 20.  It works just
fine in earlier versions of Firefox and I've never had a problem.  In my earlier
post where I said the log in and log out appears to work as it should, it does.
 The problem is when you 'log in' to a different account.

The web page displaying the log out screen for gmail appears as it should.  You
get bounced back to the main prompt to log into a gmail account.  Upon logging
into the a different gmail account, the browser seems to hold the data/password
for the last log in and pass that data rather than what is in the form.  Then
you get logged into the first account.

Comment 6

[Ben Fowler]

Thank you.

If this is a defect which is present in 1.5 and not 1.0.6 then again,
it may warrant a new Report, but not if you are happy to have it discussed
here.

You might want to look at my comment 1 , though this might be on the
wrong lines.

I am not sure that many people use numerous gmail accounts from the
same browser session (whilst it might be pushing it, it seems not to
be specificaly forbidden by the gmail TOS), so you may find that this
will not receive a lot of attention.

Is there a setting in gmail which might help you? Do not remember me
on this computer or something?

Comment 7

[Fred Popp]

I have this same problem in version 1.5 Beta 2. After "upgrading", I now have
this problem when trying to use my multiple gmail accounts. The first account
always stays active after logging back in with another gmail account.

Never had this problem with other browsers and with the previous stable version
of Firefox.

(I use both Windows XP SP2 fully updated and Fecora Core 4 Linux operating systems.)

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Please comment in the bug - Do you still see this problem?

(reporter, XMD, is gone)

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I can't reproduce this at all using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Windows XP SP 2. If you're still able to reproduce this using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later with a clean profile, please reopen this bug.

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