I have a sign up link on the main page in the VWG application. After a user signs up, a verification email is sent. That verification email goes to a URL with the same VWG page, but detect from the URL that is needs to verify a new sign up by breaking apart the URL (with a GUID). Now the user might, at that point, have another browser window opened with the VWG application if he/she just signed up. So then the user is stuck with two windows. If the user just closes the window that came up, because the other window is open (the first window), then the user tries to enter the new username and password that just got validated. At this point for some reason, the VWG application somewhat resets itself. I have code that runs, for example, on the textchanged event of the username and password fields, so if the user enters the username for the first time, it immediately erases what the user typed because the session has been reset (because of the other window that loaded and verified the new user). I would like some feedback here. Should I make a simple aspx page so I don't load up the VWG app again? Is there a way to not make this resetting happen?

This happens in IE8. So what should I test in IE8 only to verify what you are asking?

OK, just want to bounce around some theory on this one. I have lots of code that runs on the textchanged events of username and password when the user signs in. So as verified from your suggestion above, chaos is created when the user signs up, and then a link opens another window. The "old" window somewhat resets itself so a bunch of chaos can then happen (for example, sign on with the "new window" from the email verification link, and then go back to the "old" window, don't even put in a username or password and hit logon, and it just logs into the site without really having put the username or password. And the site thinks that the logon page is still there and errors. This is a subtle bug. Any way to prevent?).

So here is my solution. When a user signs up, after a successful sign up, just abandon the session and tell the user the window will close (the browser may also ask the user if he/she wants to close it). This should not be a problem because the link sent to the email address will take the user right into a fresh session, and have the nice effect of auto-filling in the username. What do you think?

Any suggestions of how to make the "old" window work better, or is this approach better? A potential problem is that this exist the user out of a window, and the user may want to log on as somebody else at that moment. Help!?!