Session variables stay when Firefox is closed, but not in IE 1

[Billkamm]

When I close my IE 6 browser and re-open and navigate to my ASP.Net website all of my session variables are null.
In Firefox 2 when I close the browser and re-open and navigate to my ASP.Net website all of the previous session variables are still there.

I want the session variables to be cleared when the user closes their Firefox 2 browser. The default options in Firefox 2 do not have this occur. Is there a way via code or web.config to make sure that these sessions variables (cookies on the client-side) get cleared whenever the browser is closed?

 

[vbkris]

hmm,

i could suggest a work around but then i really dont know why firefox is behaving like this. you may want to check this up with some firefox forums.

the workaround being:
try using cookieless sessions...

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[Billkamm]

I checked the Firefox and I think that cookieless sessions would most likely work.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=511561&highlight=

 

[vbkris]

dude,

i went through that post link that u sent.

one observation:
Even MSIE considers all windows opened as one instance if Ctrl + N is used to open the new windows or opened by using links...

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[Billkamm]

I was unaware I launch new MSIE windows by running iexplore.exe and new firefox window by running firefox.exe. I guess MSIE allows you to have multiple instance of iexplore.exe by default and Firefox does not.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[vbkris]

>>I was unaware I launch new MSIE windows by running iexplore.exe and new firefox window by running firefox.exe

yup, that seems to be the problem...

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