On May 16, 6:21 pm, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
There's also the fact that users don't see separate tabs as separate
sessions... With windows it's more interesting; in particular for WinIE
separate windows are in fact separate sessions if they're started by
clicking the icon.
FWIW,
Boris Zbarsky wrote on 5/16/2009 8:21 PM:
Why haven't browsers (such as FireFox) isolated tabs/windows from
each other such that I cannot simply replicate a logged-in user by
simply pasting into another FF tab?
For what it's worth, some sites do in fact prevent this (not sure which
Can anyone answer this question:
What is the *technical reason* that separate TABS cannot be isolated
from each other (for session management, etc).
I ask this specifically because it's great that great strides are being
made by the browser makers to keep the tabs/windows isolated from
Rafal Los wrote:
Can anyone answer this question:
What is the *technical reason* that separate TABS cannot be isolated
from each other (for session management, etc).
Because the session information is per-profile in the typical case (e.g.
cookies). If the question is why session cookies
