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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
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May 26, 2011
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IE 8 Session Merging - chapping my hide - any work around?

  • May 26, 2011
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Our IT department just pushed out IE8 and now I can no longer open up two windows into PDMLink with one as a mortal user and the other as the site admin.

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom implemented something called session merging which reuses the credentials from the first window you have open.

Anyone know how to turn this off? Or some other workaround?

David Haigh
Phone: 925-424-3931
Fax: 925-423-7496
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
7000 East Ave, L-362
Livermore, CA 94550

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MikeIbosh1-Visitor
1-Visitor
May 26, 2011
Hi David,

Yes there is a fix for this. In the shortcut for the browser window add
this command line option:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -noframemerging
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AL_ANDERSON12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
May 26, 2011
We have the same problem.

Firefox does not have that problem. We have some users asking for a
policy exception to use the embedded mozilla browswer for proE.

We also found that if you use the Chrome plug in for IE 8 in the second
window that this problem goes away, too, but that plug in is not supported
for the embedded ProE browswer.

Moreover, IE 8 is slow for everything. Outside of ProE HTML BOM viewing
is faster with either the Chrome plug in or Firefox.

Our problem is that IT will not support Firefox.

We actually have a 6 Sigma project now looking at options for this and
overall browser performance.

In the meantime, the workaroud is that while ProE is running on a desktop
in an IE 8 browser, a user can use our Citrix client to access a separate
IE 8 instance and run that. Users hate that, however, since saving files
and uploading files is more difficult since the Citrix client is not
defaulted to the user's PC desktop.

PTC support said that it is an IE 8 issue and they can't do anything about
it. We have not seriously considered trying to make Microsoft fix it,
however, so we are looking at other options now.

Al Anderson







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AL_ANDERSON12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
May 26, 2011
Sorry, I confused this issue with another one. The issue I am describing
is that while ProE is running some long operation (i.e. a check in that
takes several minutes), a user cannot open another IE 8 browser to go into
PDMLink and continue non-ProE work.

There is some memory issue with IE 8 that causes the browser to hang until
ProE is done.

This is the issue we are fighting. I mistook your issue for ours. Yours
is actually different.

Does anyone have experience with what I am describing?

Al Anderson





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