Hi and thanks to you both.
I think that Wm Mussatto nailed it. I will install the Cookie Warning and Login
Check plugins in the next few days and also see if there's a Firefox setting
for not sharing instances.
I'll report back what I find.
Kind regards
Niclas
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:51:27 -0700
> From: mussa...@csz.com
> To: p...@squirrelmail.org; squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] Session problem with Firefox but not IE
>
> Off-list: OK didn't notice that, sorry.
> On Mon, March 11, 2013 09:47, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Wm Mussatto <mussa...@csz.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, March 10, 2013 09:35, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Niclas Arndt <niclas_ar...@hotmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I am running 1.4.21 on an old openSUSE and I have a problem that I
> >>>> assume is
> >>>> session-related.
> >>>>
> >>>> IE 9 doesn't suffer from it - only Firefox 19 (and previous versions).
> >>>> I
> >>>> haven't tried other browsers.
> >>>>
> >>>> So long as I am only logged into Squirrelmail and not doing anything
> >>>> else,
> >>>> everything is fine.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I open another Firefox window and login to for example Hotmail (or
> >>>> another Squirrelmail account), I get kicked out from the original
> >>>> Squirrelmail account with this message:
> >>>>
> >>>> ERROR
> >>>> You must be logged in to access this page.
> >>>>
> >>>> If I log into my Squirrelmail account, everything works (until I login
> >>>> to
> >>>> e.g. Hotmail again...).
> >>>>
> >>>> As I said previously, IE9 (and previous versions) haven't suffered
> >>>> from
> >>>> this
> >>>> - only Firefox.
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as I know, there is no exotic plugin (or similar) that might
> >>>> disturb
> >>>> - quite "vanilla" Firefox.
> >>>>
> >>>> session.use_cookies reports as "YES" and session.save_path looks
> >>>> right.
> >>>
> >>> If it works in IE (and because no one else has this issue), it's
> >>> probably something in your Firefox setup, or your web server... not
> >>> likely anything that SquirrelMail is responsible for. You can install
> >>> the Cookie Warning plugin to get more accurate error reporting if the
> >>> problem is your cookies are being wiped out (but might be easier and
> >>> more informative to watch the cookies in FF yourself manually, where
> >>> you can also check the expiration info, etc.)
> >>
> >> Firefox shares cookies between all open instances whereas Internet
> >> Explorer does not. When you opened the second SM session in FF the new
> >> cookies overwrote the old cookies. I had a client bring this to my
> >> attention years ago. Hope this helps.
> >
> > The OP claims that opening *any* other window (URI) causes this issue.
> > If so, it's not the same issue you are thinking of. Or perhaps the
> > OP didn't do very good testing. If that's the case, the problem can
> > be addressed by using the Login Check plugin.
> >
> > --
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