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A Feature in IE8 Browser That All Other Browser Should Have

Most of the time I use Google Chrome for my daily works and browsing; Sometime I use Firefox; If not necessay, I won't use Internet Explorer; I rarely use Safari; Sometimes I use all of them at the same time.

You may wonder why I need to use a few browsers at the same time. I use multiple browsers because most of the browsers do not support multiple HTTP sessions for the same website. I'm a web developer and sometimes I need to test my web application using multiple session (e.g. user login - a few users concurrently login to the website).

Google Chrome does not support multiple session. Opening a new tab for the same website (domain) will re-use a session for the website that registered in Google Chrome's main process. Until you close all Google Chrome processes, the session data will remain there until it expire. You can actually have "another" new set of session data in Google Chrome by creating a new incognito window. But that you can have only maximum two set of session data only because after the first new incognito window, the subsequent new incognito window will re-use the first incognito window's session data.

Firefox does not support multiple session too. But you make it supports multiple session by creating profiles. To me, managing the profile and chosing a profile each time open a browser are too troublesome to me. Therefore it is unacceptable to me.

Safari does not support multiple session too and I find no way to make it "multiple session".

In the latest Internet Explorer 8, the browser supports multiple session. You can't easily find the features by clicking the icons or menus on the browser. To start browsing in a new session, press keyboard Alt+F and you will see an old style "File" menu appears on top of the browser. Click on the "New Session". A new Internet Explorer process will be launch you can start browsing in new session. How great and how simple is it! With IE8, you can now login multiple email accounts at the same time even there are from the same website!

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