289085 - incompatible multible yahoo mail accounts

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[mhanyi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Yahoo mail, Wife and I share computer, Firefox will not allow 2 different yahoo
mail accounts to be open at same time, we must logout one to logon the other.


otherwise very impressed with firefox!
good work

Mike
Finland 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log on one yahoo mail account
2.open new firefox browser page
3.attempt to log on a different yahoo account.

Actual Results:  
as soon as the log on page is opened it automatically opens the first account.

Expected Results:  
it should not be aware that a separate window is open.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

This is just the way Firefox works.  See bug 117222 for more discussion.  In a
nutshell though, this is due to design decisions, and is not exactly a bug.

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