340635 - Inapropriate Cookie Sharing among browser windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[liku]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

Mozilla is unnecessarily Sharing Cookies among browser windows when it seens the same IMAP server, is creating problem.

For instance, just browsing "mail.yahoo.com" on a 2nd window, while being logged in to yahoo mail in 1st window, it is seen that mozilla automatically logs in to yahoo and shows the same page as on the 1st window, as if I am just opening a child window! Moreover, if I try to log in as different user, it expires the used cookies, so the login session used in 1st window expires!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login into a mail server in mozilla 
2. open another mozilla window and type the same url
OR,
3. try to login into same mail server as 2nd user.

Actual Results:  
In case of 
2. it will take u to the same page as being displayed in 1st window
In case of 
3. 1st login session expires

Expected Results:  
In case of
2. simply show the default page of the mail server.
In case of
3. Let u login in 2nd window as 2nd user. I.e., should keep different sets of cookies for different windows (instances) of mozilla in same computer.

Mozill should keep different sets of cookies for different windows (instances) of mozilla in same computer. This could be accomplished if it also takes care of the instance ID with the Cookie set.

Comment 1

[Peter Kasting]

This is the sort of use case that profiles were made for.  If I'm running two windows with the same profile, I _want_ them to share cookies.  If I didn't want them to share cookies, I'd be running them with different profiles.  (If we used a different set of cookies for every window that came up, you could never preserve cookies across browser shutdown, which would clearly be bad.  Even if you tried, you'd run into tricky details about which set of cookies to use on next open when you, say, close three different browser windows.)