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How can I log into two differant accounts at the same time in two windows without the second window affecting the first.

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I'm trying to log into two facebook accounts at the same time in differant windows. When ever I log into the second account in the second window it changes the login in the first window. When I hit home or any other link the first window account has been logged out and logged into the second window account. I tried installing a second copy of firefox in a differant folder that the first but it seems to use all the files of the first installation. If I can get 2 toatally seperated instalations that don't rely on the same history, cookies, cache, etc I belive that will solve my problem. Please help.

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I'm trying to log into two facebook accounts at the same time in differant windows. When ever I log into the second account in the second window it changes the login in the first window. When I hit home or any other link the first window account has been logged out and logged into the second window account. I tried installing a second copy of firefox in a differant folder that the first but it seems to use all the files of the first installation. If I can get 2 toatally seperated instalations that don't rely on the same history, cookies, cache, etc I belive that will solve my problem. Please help. == User Agent == Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)

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AnonymousUser
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Nah, that won't work. Facebook has a feature that gets your IP Address, so as soon as you sign into one on the same computer, it changes the other login for safety purposes (say, someone was on a public library PC. They forgot to log out. Someone else logs in, and it automatically logs them out). You'll need 2 computers to do that.

AnonymousUser
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I can already log onto two accounts using two differant browsers though. I can be on one account in firefox and the other in IE8. I don't think that's my problem. I appreciate the feedback though.

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You can look at one of these if you want to sign on with different identities at the same time: CookiePie: http://www.nektra.com/oss/firefox/extensions/cookiepie/ CookieSwap: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3255 Multifox: http://br.mozdev.org/multifox/ - Different logins at the same time

AnonymousUser
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Thank you everyone for your responses. I found the answer that worked in another thread that contained this link: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_wi...