Differences of Session Sharing behavior in IE7 & IE8

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By Santosh in Web Development

It’s always important for the developer to know what new browsers are coming up with, mainly popular browsers like Internet explorer & Firefox. In the recent release of Microsoft IE8 handling of session’s been extended for new instances of IE to match Firefox.In this article we will be explaining the Differences of Session sharing behavior in Internet explorer 7 and Internet explorer 8 and how to maintain consistency across these browsers.

In the old releases like IE6 and IE 7 if we open New tab/New Window, the current window session will be shared in the newly opened Tab/Window only, how ever if we open new IE(from explorer bar) instance then session will not be shared. Where as in IE 8 the session will be shared in all the three cases opening the New Tab/New Window/New IE instance.

As a developer it’s always important to have consistency of your application across different browsers, In case if you do not want to share the session when user opens new instance in IE8 then Change the options displayed under IE 8 menu which is  – “New Session”. So all the IE 8 users must know about it if they don’t want the session to be shared across various internet explorer instances.

This is the main difference on session sharing between the IE 7 and IE 8.

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