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I regularly log in to 8 google accounts and have 4-12 tabs open on 3-6 separate windows. Issues come up on occasion that are fixed by closing chrome and reopening.

Not sure exactly but that's my experience at least.

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> 8 google accounts and have 4-12 tabs open on 3-6 separate windows.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you do this? I can't think of a reason to need to be logged into that many Google accounts at one time.

Whenever I get a new account I set it up to forward to my main account and setup my main account so it can properly send as that account. This way I only ever need one account open.

How many phone #s do you register with?

Just one. I have an old gmail.com account from when they first started, but all of the newer accounts I get are google apps or gsuite or whatever they're calling it now. Those don't require a unique phone number.

lots of agencies have this need - social media agencies for instance need to be logged into all the gmail accounts of their clients at all times, so if they have 20 clients thats 20 logged in accounts.

Not sure what the number of accounts would have to do with resource usage. A logged in account is just a cookie.

> A logged in account is just a cookie.

...and the code, and all of the state from the objects that are, you know, "currently resident in main memory" while that logged in account is being accessed, and, and, and.

Only three Google accounts for me, but otherwise that sounds consistent with my experience— running on macOS, I need to restart Chrome typically once every day or two. Otherwise everything just eventually crawls to a halt.

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