Session persistence in IE and firefox

[Anjali Naveen]

hi, how does IE and firefox differ wrt to seeion managing. When a new window is opened in IE it is in the same session. However for firefox doesn't it start the new window in another session??if so how do i obtain values. Also if the new window is a popup does the parent window get notification automatically abt the child window closing

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Anjali,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

You are correct that IE considers all open windows to be part of the same session. In Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, it depends on how the window is opened. If it is opened as a link or pop-up (or I suspect a tab) from an existing window, the session is shared. If you actually launch the browser again, a new session is created.