Cloned Usernames?
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bky
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And there was 76 Anonymous online /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
DocHeb
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Does that mean that Mozilla maintains separate cookies for each instance/tab you're runnin? If I sign on with two IE sessions I can jump back and forth like you describe, yet when checking "who's on-line" there is only one instance of my name.
I'm not sure about that.. but firefox does give you lots of control over the cookies. Boiled down, IE basically has 3 modes, allow all cookies, disallow all cookies, or prompt for all cookies. It of course has an exception list to the first two options.
Firefox has those 3 options and a new one that may cause funny reactions on some sites. The 4 firefox option basically amounts to fooling the website into thinking that it is accepting all cookies, while in fact it is only allowing those cookies per session. In other words when I log off, the cookies are gone even though the website thinks they were set permanently.
That is extremely simplified, and I am not sure of the exact reaction of that setting across multiple tabs. Extremely new versions of firefox have made even less information passable from one tab to another due to a recent security problem resulting from inter tab communication. This may in fact be the cause. I usually run the nightly builds, and my Firefox is usually no more than a week old. I'm sure the guys that run the site can test it though.
Firefox has those 3 options and a new one that may cause funny reactions on some sites. The 4 firefox option basically amounts to fooling the website into thinking that it is accepting all cookies, while in fact it is only allowing those cookies per session. In other words when I log off, the cookies are gone even though the website thinks they were set permanently.
That is extremely simplified, and I am not sure of the exact reaction of that setting across multiple tabs. Extremely new versions of firefox have made even less information passable from one tab to another due to a recent security problem resulting from inter tab communication. This may in fact be the cause. I usually run the nightly builds, and my Firefox is usually no more than a week old. I'm sure the guys that run the site can test it though.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> However there is only one Gatorboy and only one Junkman </font> )</font>
Amen to that. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Amen to that. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
This isn't, as far as I know, a problem relating to anyone's browser.
It seems harmless. And we will remove the cloned usernames. But I'm checking some things to see what may have caused them. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
-Ibrahim
It seems harmless. And we will remove the cloned usernames. But I'm checking some things to see what may have caused them. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
-Ibrahim
