Can’t log in as two different users in Firefox at the same time

  • 3501457
  • 11-Sep-2006
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Identity Manager Identity Manager 3.0

Situation

In the User Application, if you log in as User A using a Mozilla-family browser (Firefox, Netscape, or Mozilla), then open another browser instance (of the same kind of browser) and log in as User B, you might see information for User B when going back to the first browser instance. This is because browser instances are sharing (and overwriting) the same cookie.

Resolution

  This behavior is specific to Mozilla-family browsers; it does not occur with Internet Explorer

Status

Reported to Engineering