Firefox and APEX Problems

It seems that there are a lot of APEX users developing with Firefox, so figured I would ask this question here.
When using Firefox, the APEX developer sessions seem to keep overwriting each other, even if I start a completely separate instance of Firefox.
If I log into one workspace, then open another firefox instance and log into a different workspace on the same server, when I try to do anything in the original window I am prompted for my login again.
I have not found any solution to this and its required me to use IE for any additional sessions I have to establish (which is highly annoying).
I have tested this with versions of firefox from 1.0.7 to the latest 2.x version and they all share the same problem. All of these tests were under Windows XP.
Any thoughts or solutions are welcome.
Thanks,
Barney

It seems that cookie problem is real in your
situation and cannot see the ither way to help you.
And, I do not understand your words...so if you could
explain...I'm not native English speaker man...so...Ah, my apologies. Your original post actually made for an excellent joke...the premise of using a distinct browser "brand" for each session. I was carrying this forward to one of the nostalgic greats, the text based Lynx browser.
In actuality, IE does not suffer from the session bug, so I can use IE for as many additional sessions as needed. There is no need to additionally use Mozilla, Opera, et al.
My hope was simply that with so many Firefox users on this site, that someone knew of an actual solution, plugin, hidden setting, etc. that solves this problem.
I can continue to use IE in lieu of a solution for this bug.
Thanks again, and apologies for any confusion caused.
Barney

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