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Have you ever seen Yahoo confuse user identity in Firefox?
This morning I was browsing a Reuters story on Assad and chemical weapons via a Yahoo link/frame in Firefox 14.0.1. As I was getting ready to back out of the article, I noticed that it wasn't my user ID. I had already checked email and my account was active/still open in a separate tab. Instead, the tab said I was logged in as phil_carr@sbcglobal.net. And in place of the Yahoo! designation next to the little house in the very top right corner menu, it said AT&T. I don't know any "Phil"s right now, and this office computer is used only by me.
I took a screen capture because I couldn't believe it. Any ideas as to why/how this happened, and what risk it could pose to other Yahoo users?
2 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
That certainly sounds strange. While Able is generally correct, they aren't completely correct.
Did you go over to the email side and navigate through your email while the other tab showed the different user? In theory, you should not be able to have two IDs from actively used within Firefox, although you can have one active in different browsers programs running on the same machine, like one in Explorer and one in Firefox (different cookie storage system).
One possibility is that Yahoo's servers misfired, with a data packet going to the wrong IP address. That would be embarrassing for Yahoo.
One possibility is that someone hijacked your browser and overlaid a false image to make you think you were seeing the Yahoo story.
- 9 years ago
It's impossible that two indentity are active in the same time in the same browser session.
