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Comment by nitin_flanker | Hacker News Reader

I want a web browser that let me open multiple accounts of a similar site at once.

I've always thought the same. It'd be great to have a browser that allowed fully independent sessions to be running simulataneously

Chrome has this feature with dedicated profiles, and you can accomplish this in firefox pretty easily using some good extensions.

Yeah, but that's really a hassle and such a workaround shouldn't be required.

And firefox's extensibility is great as usual, but its bloat and the new UI and the ads on the tab pages disillusioned me

In chrome, you can make a shortcut for a profile by providing a flag --profile-directory="YourProfileName" It will be created if it doesn't exist and you can even set it to point to a TEMP folder for throwaways.

Firefox can do this with separate profiles too, so long as you also include --no-remote with other instances.

You get 1 alternate session w/ Incognito or Private Browsing modes. Internet Explorer has File | New Session. Otherwise, it's down to extensions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/multifox/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multilogin/nccllfn...

I have been working on this plugin for a while. I just wrote up it's documentation. It is still waiting in the Mozilla's approval queue.

1. http://firstglitch.com/cookieplux/cookieplux-firfox-plugin-f...

Feel free to try it out.

You can do this in Chrome, already.

Could you elaborate, please? (link, pointers?)

Opening new incognito tabs/windows will let you log on with different accounts in each window.

No, cookies are shared across incognito windows (try gmail.com)

Ah, didn't realize that. Thinking about it, I've only used this 'hack' to have two different gmail accounts open at the same time (one in normal, one in incognito).

No we can't. Please don't suggest to go incognito.

There' a user switcher button in the top right corner, you can have multiple browser sessions with seperate histories / cookies (e.g. work / personal)

Holy moley! I never noticed that!

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