Firefox/Mozilla has profiles. All instances of a browser opened under a
given profile will share the same session cookies.



On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 07:17, Dale, Matt wrote:
> That's correct. Although I think that Firefox may share it's sessions across all 
> browsers as well as tabs.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 21 October 2004 12:10
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Mysterious session behavior across browsers
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> 
> It's been a while since I've fought with this issue so it may have
> changed.
> 
> With MSIE, try opening a new browser instance by ctl+n or by clicking
> file->new.  The two instances will be sharing the same session cookie.
> 
> Open a new instance by clicking Start->programs->MSIE. This instance
> will have it's own session.
> 
> Closing all browsers should kill all sessions.  I don't believe you need
> to actively clear caches to kill a session cookie.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 20:25, QM wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:14:05PM -0700, Michael McGrady wrote:
> > : Live and learn.  I did not know that.  This means, then, that my session 
> > : data will be available to someone who comes along and uses the same 
> > : browser?  I am trying to get used to this idea. 
> > 
> > That is correct, unless you close the browser, clear the cache, etc
> > before you walk away from that computer.
> > 
> > The idea is that only one person is in front of the computer at one
> > time, therefore browsers code accordingly.  When you think about it,
> > that's a reasonable assumption made by browser developers.
> > 
> > Likely, there's some browser you can configure to treat each window as a
> > different logical user/entity; but I've never bothered to look. ;)
> > 
> > -QM
> 
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