A Better Way to Handle Multi Sign In
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When multi sign in came out for Google accounts I was really excited. But after using it the Google way I decided it sucked. So I found a way to fix it for my use.
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There was a version of Chrome I downloaded a while ago which created a shortcut icon on the desktop of a multiple profile. This feature has since then disappeared and I have yet to find a way to create a desktop short cut but I know it is possible through command line switches in the shortcut icon.
There are compromises here and there between Firefox and Chrome. I am actually surprised to see that IE10 hasn't caught up with multiple profiles and/or even a sync. The best IE10 can do is give you private browsing (which you can potentially use to have a second profile, but it is not that convenient like Chrome).
Also, I've found Chrome's multi user windows have a nasty tendency to fail to reopen all windows and all tabs upon reboot. One or two will open, but at least one won't, and when you do launch a new window for that user, it won't remember its prior tabs.
Your approach resolves both those cases. That said, Chrome's built in support with the prominent user icon in the window title bar is fantastic for multiple email accounts and the like, especially coupled with tab pinning so it can't help but open Gmail for example.
The way I do it very simple: separate user accounts on Linux. That way you're sure there's no way they're going to interfere with each other. Of course it helps to be using an OS on which it's trivial to have multiple indepedent graphical sessions and which allow (if you grant that privilege) another local user to display it's app on your graphical session.
The "temp" / fake identity account is actually running inside a VM (KVM) because I use to surf on untrusted sites and is really a "throwaway" account / VM.
That kind of blog entry is kiddie stuff compared to what's easily doable under Linux.
The blog entry doesn't support user profiles, Chrome does. Anyway, things that are simple time savers aren't kiddie stuff, they're productivity multipliers.
Mucking around with multiple Linux accounts and multiple graphical sessions with privilege management just to log into three Google accounts is like attaching papers together with origami instead of a paperclip.
http://www.bloomize.com/how-to-bind-papers-without-staples-o...