gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » multiple logins http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Use Multifox For Multiple Website Loginshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/14/use-multifox-for-multiple-website-logins/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/14/use-multifox-for-multiple-website-logins/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:49:27 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=21429 Some Internet users have multiple accounts for selected websites. This can be multiple Gmail accounts, e.g. a private and business email account, or Two Facebook or Twitter accounts. The problem that these users experience is that they cannot log into the same website more than once using the same web browser. Some overcome that problem by opening the websites in different web browsers while others log in and out of the different accounts multiple times a day to be able to use them all.

Multifox is a Firefox add-on that offers a third possibility. It is not the first to offer multiple logins though as we have covered add-ons and options to do that in the past.

Multifox on the other hand makes it relatively easy. It does so by adding options to launch a new identity profile window to the File menu, bookmark menu and the link context menu. Identity profiles isolate logins so that it is possible to log into web services multiple times. Each link profile is launched in a separate window. All tabs and windows opened from that link profile inherit the settings.

Each Firefox link profile can be distinguished by looking at the number that Multifox puts into the address bar. This starts with the number 2 for the first link profile and a blank for the original Firefox window.
The logins are preserved even if the window is closed or Firefox is quit. Session restores will also restore the logins just like Firefox does normally.

Multifox is a great add-on for the Firefox web browser that has been designed for users who work with multiple accounts at the same web service. The add-on is compatible with Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 and can be downloaded from the developer’s website.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/12/14/use-multifox-for-multiple-website-logins/feed/ 11 Log Into Multiple Accounts Simultaneouslyhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/24/log-into-multiple-accounts-simultaneously/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/24/log-into-multiple-accounts-simultaneously/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:19:21 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7834 Many users maintain multiple accounts on various websites, for example two Gmail accounts one for business and one for private contacts or multiple Facebook or MySpace accounts. Using multiple accounts is usually privacy related but it could also be used for other purposes. The main problem that most web browsers have with multiple accounts on the same domain is that they cannot maintain more than one cookie for that site.

If a user logs into the first account, opens a new tab and logs into the second the cookie for the first account will be overwritten by the cookie for the second account effectively logging off the user account in the first tab.

Google Chrome is the only browser that supports – most likely unintentionally – simultaneous account usage. Users can make use of the so called Incognito Mode which makes use of its own cookie storage. Incognito Mode is a privacy mode that deletes any traces of the session after closing it.

Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode can be used to login twice into any web service. The user would login normally at first and press [CTRL Shift N] afterwards which would open a new browser window in Incognito Mode. The new browser window could then be used to log into the service a second time.

Firefox users can install the Firefox add-on Cookie Pie which maintains separate cookie storages in tabs and windows if activated. It basically has the same effect that the Incognito Mode of Google Chrome has with the difference that the browsing history will not be deleted after closing the session.

Opera users who want to use Opera and nothing but could make use of different profiles to achieve the same results although it would probably be easier to start a second browser and use this for the second login. There is a Gmail Widget for Opera that provides access to two Gmail accounts.

Does anyone know how Internet Explorer 8 and Safari handle that issue?

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