461282 - session will be overridden in case there are two firefox window(not tab) opened for the same web site

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Machera]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

when I click the firefox icon (actually, the exectuable file, .exe in Windows platform) to open more than one firefox window, not tabs in the same window and not popup window of a parent window. And then, I went to visite the same web side in the different firefox windows and login that web site. then, the session created by first window will be overridden by the session created by the second window.
Here, first window and second window is not the order that I opened them but the order that I login the web site in different windows.

So, this seems for the same web site, firefox always keep one session only even in the newly fresh window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open more than one firefox windows
2. login a web site in the different windows with different users
3. you will see the session is only the last one, the first session has been overridden.


Expected Results:  
for the different fresh new firefox windows(attentation, not the tab and not the popup window with a parent window), they should keep their own sessions instead of being overridden by the last one.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Firefox uses one process for all its windows, and shared persistent state (cookies in this case) across all windows. This is mostly by design, though bugs such as bug 117222 are about somehow limiting the scope to "related" windows.

This is certainly not a bug that needs to be marked security-sensitive.