Tabbed browsing doesn't work well (yet!)
Problems with Tabbed browsing keep showing recently because websites account for their pages being tabbed.. so when I have two booking tabs open at TheTrainLine and choose my train in one tab, I go to the other tab and the train info has been lost because the other tab overwrote it! (known as a race condition)
The fix is for either websites with login and ordering process cookies and sessions to store and support multiple connections from the same user... or for browsers to neatly disguise each tab as a new session/browser instance. I favour the latter at present, as we're never going to be able to convince all website designers they should code in a way which supports tabs, and it seems neater to do it at the client side.
Personally, I really appreciate tabs for browsing reference information. However, I much prefer to have my web applications in separate windows so I can flick between them and paste text from a web page into my GMail compose window etc, and having different windows on each of my flat panels ;)
posted by Jon Grant, 東京 @ 14:06
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This got me thinking, and I found this in google: http://siphon9.net/loune/2007/05/multiple-cookie-containers-for-firefox/
Not sure if that's the most elegant solution, but it would fix your problem. As for the Trainline, it's got many more problems that just cookie behaviour. I've even had tickets sent out and authorised to my user name rather than my real name in the past (which isn't on my credit card, and wasn't on my Young Person's rail card, so it's just as well the ticket inspector didn't check the ticket too closely)
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