329765 - Overwriting the Old session for two seperate instances of Firefox/DeerPark

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sai Krishna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

How far is this right? Firefox/Deerpark overwrites the old session whenever we open a new session of the same URL,  objecting the multitasking feature of the website.
Example:
Our website has certain users, once they login with their  Login IDs they will be able to use numerous fetaures that are available on the website.But when they open a new instance of the Browser this session overwrites the session of the old browser and that old browser stops working. This is a serious problem on FireFox. Is there a way that we can overcome this? If so would you please guide us the steps we need to take into consideration while coding.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

'Windows' in Internet Exploder are idendepent entities, but not in Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox. One of the results is that cookies from one window are also visible in the other windows. See bug 86174 and bug 117222.

You should not use cookies to 'mark' your sessions, but real sessionids in the URL. Then it would also work for users that don't use cookies.