Hello, my group has been testing a new access module, and in doing so needs to have many different browser windows open to see what effect certain scenarios have on the different roles within the system. Occassionally, one browser/user will "take" the session of the other window. So, if I'm logged in as Bob and Phil, the Phil window at some point may become Bob, resulting in two Bob windows (but one session, I suspect--haven't confirmed). All users, including myself have seen this, but we've been testing for weeks, so this isn't completely common.
I should mention that we're using cookies w/zero session life and the browsers being used for testing are IE. We haven't tested w/multiple FF yet. With that prelude, my question is:
Is it simply IE that gets bogged down when cpu/ram/vmem usage is too high, and memory spaces start to collide? Or might I have something in the code?
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
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Try using Firefox (with cool
Try using Firefox (with cool tools like FireBug and WebDeveloper) as a second browser (or first)
Starting a new IE through CTRL-N (File, New window) runs in the same browser session. Through Start->IE behaved differently (old days?)
Totally agree. I couldn't
Totally agree. I couldn't live without firebug. However, in this case, I've got testers running five or six different concurrent roles and every so often the users "combine". No big deal. I've told them all to simply limit the amount of logins to one in FF and one in IE.
Another possibility is to
Another possibility is to make a multi site configuration with for each role a different subdomain.
I currently have sub1.example.com, sub2.example.com running drupal 5.1 with the same database/tables.
With this patch (http://drupal.org/files/issues/uniquesession_4.patch) which delivers different cookies for different sub-domains from http://drupal.org/node/56357 I can now logon with two different users onto the same database. Running the same browser. Ain't that cool.
I'm not sure whether your testers can use this configuration though.
Regards, Clemens
Great idea. This is already
Great idea. This is already on multisite, so it'd be quick to get to that point. Very clever!
Thanks for the advice, gents.