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ProKiner
ProKiner

Reputation: 707

Using Run As to run multiple instance of IE 8 doesn't seem to work

In the past, I've used the runas commandline to launch another instance if IE on a secondary account for testing, since our in-house web-app application uses windows authentication to identify a user. With the new multi-process model if IE8, this doesn't seem to work. Has anyone seen a workaround for it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9731

Answers (4)

ProKiner
ProKiner

Reputation: 707

I hate it when this happens, but it appears to be working now. I checked which IE8 updates are installed on my machine, and the only one is MS09-034. I don't see any reference to RunAs on XP, but it works now. Hmph. Oh well... glad it is "fixed".

Upvotes: 0

EricLaw
EricLaw

Reputation: 57115

See this: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/05/06/session-cookies-sessionstorage-and-ie8.aspx for info on session merging.

As an aside: RunAs is currently broken with IE8 on XP, but works on Vista. The IE team is aware/investigating this issue.

Upvotes: 3

ProKiner
ProKiner

Reputation: 707

Some interesting details to add: viewing the Event Viewer Security log, it shows that a new process for IE gets created, but immediately exits. That would lead me to believe that IE is internally checking something to see that there is already a running instance of the iexplore.exe process, and shuts itself down.

Upvotes: 0

Antony
Antony

Reputation: 3781

Try using an 'InPrivate' session.

Upvotes: 0

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