A Better Way to Handle Multi Sign In(1n73r.net)
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A Better Way to Handle Multi Sign In
http://1n73r.net/2013/03/11/a-better-way-to-handle-multi-sign-in/
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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> No way to set a shortcut to control which profile opens initially (opens last used profile)
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 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 was a comment left that pointed out the --profile-directory="[PROFILE]" flag. I will have to try this along with changing the icon to see if that works for the multiple profiles.
I just tried this. It broke chrome and I needed to create a new "User Data" directory. Maybe it'll work in a future version.
Thanks. I have a need for only two profiles and I have gotten used to of launching the primary profile and then secondary through it. I always close the secondary first and primary second so I guess I am okay without the icon for now.
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).
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).
I just use different browsers. Chrome for the personal one, Firefox for the work one. Very easy, just Cmd+Tab between them, can always stay signed in, and no confusion!
The different browser approach has the added benefit of letting you bind that app to a different desktop. The Chrome multi users can't be bound to different desktops automatically.
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.
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.
I was doing the same thing but got frustrated with things that would/wouldn't work in one browser but would in the other due to rendering engine differences and also not having certain extensions in one browser I had in the other. With multiple profiles in a single browser things stay consistent.
I've got always at least three different Google accounts logged in: personal one (GMail + G+ + Google Docs), professional one (Google Apps for Domain / Business : GMail + Google Docs) and a "fake identity one" (GMail + G+).
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 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.
> That kind of blog entry is kiddie stuff
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...
http://imgur.com/SNlUOsJ
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...
http://imgur.com/SNlUOsJ