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IE8's new session feature allows multiple logins to web apps
Internet Explorer has certainly come a long way since version 6. While I'm not running it as my primary browser, IE8 is a big improvement and sport a number of very useful features.
One that was touted yesterday on the IEBlog was the ability to access more than one webmail account (or any other account that utilizes sessions). Head to the file menu and click New Session and IE8 will spawn a new window that doesn't share session information with the original window.
To launch a new window from a shortcut, just add the -nomerge parameter to the end of the target on its properties page. Double click it, and the new window will open free of any baggage from previously launched instances of IE.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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notatoad said 4:01PM on 5-08-2009
both incredibly obvious features that add a ton of usability. kudos microsoft, and hopefully we'll see these spreading out to other browsers soon.
though firefox already has a -nomerge equivalent, doesn't it? i'm pretty sure i remember using that somewhere.
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JoetjeF said 5:50PM on 5-08-2009
Actually, the -nomerge behaviour is default for IE7 and all other browser in the world ;) MS tried to speed up IE8 by not creating separate sessions for each tab/window and as such by default it's sharing “session cookies” among all tabs and windows.
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